World Religions

Worldview is a set of views and beliefs an individual has about the world around him in general and about certain aspects of this world in particular . This set can be complete , and elaborate , and panoptic or undeveloped , alogic and contradictory depending of age , experience and education of an individual . Regardless of complexity and self-consistency , worldview comprises of opinions and believes about God , about the world around , about ethics and morale , about truth and justice , about humanity , its place and purpose

Worldview is , in essence , a model that reflects world and its

br organization in the mind of a single human . This is a model of reality built upon personal experience learned and inherited from the surrounding individuals , and once built , this model governs subsequent perception of the world . Since this model defines even certain individual 's place , purpose and importance in the universe , it affects his mode of actions , way of communications and everything

Worldview has certain functions , that could be summarized in the following : worldview , to begin with , provides an individual with cognitive foundations for his system of explanation of reality Secondly , worldview based on cultural believes gives emotional comfort and security to the individual providing him with feeling of roots and stability . Thirdly , worldview acts as a measurement scale that helps to guide personal behavior , judge acts of neighboring ones and evaluate personal experience . The fourth , shared worldview plays integrative role as it summarizes and unites the ideas of more or less numerous groups of people and provides...