“If religion has given birth to all that is essential in society, it is because the idea of society is the soul of religion.”
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QUIZ: https://play.howstuffworks.com/quiz/can-we-guess-how-religious-you-are-on-a-scale-of-110
Share and briefly react to your results at the end of your summary.
Being culturally sensitive and respecting your’s and others’ spirituality and religious traditions, in general, is seen as an important sociological competence tool. Applying your spiritual or practical awareness to specific personal encounters or interactions requires even greater sociocultural skills. These can be, but are not limited to:
• Effective communication
• Conflict resolution
• Active listening
• Empathy
• Relationship management
• Respect
In turn, these skills are used to guide conversations and interventions that affect the following social issues:
• abortion
• LGBT rights
• domestic violence
• migration
• police violence
• racism
Match one of the six (6) sociocultural skills with one of the six (6) social issues and put both elements into conversation with one (1) of the three religious figures above:
• Based on their personal histories, and the way they carried out their missions, how do you think your religious figure would respond to your two (2) elements?
• What led you to choose your religious figure as an intermediary for your two elements?
• In relation to your two (2) elements, create an example of how your religious figure’s specific spiritual beliefs, and the way they professed them, might make a difference in today’s society if your religious figure was alive.
