dye

http://www.who.int/suggestions/faq/en/index.html

What is the WHO definition of health?

Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. The bibliographic citation for this definition is: Preamble to the Constitution of the World Health Organization as adopted by the International Health Conference, New York, 19 June - 22 July 1946; signed on 22 July 1946 by the representatives of 61 States (Official Records of the World Health Organization, no. 2, p. 100) and entered into force on 7 April 1948. The definition has not been amended since 1948.

[ 本帖最後由 dye 於 2008-9-24 09:03 編輯 ]

dye

http://kspark.kaist.ac.kr/jesus/ ... amp;%20religion.htm

「內地某大學曾經做過調查，對宗教有強烈興趣的人大部分智商和學歷都比較高。反而是學歷和智商相對較差者往往把一切宗教，神秘主義都斥之為迷信。」

這便是迷信。

dye

外國人定義的宗教，包含很多宗教。人家只問是否RELIGIOUS，不是問是否CHRISTIAN.

在佛教盛行的舊中國、現代泰國、現代TIBET、現代SRI LANKA、舊日本、舊韓國，有那一個是特別「聰明」？

[ 本帖最後由 dye 於 2008-9-27 11:20 編輯 ]

dye

不是。

你穿上一身道袍，人家不會問你是否RELIGIOUS。

RELIGIOUS應指宗教性，一個SOCIAL CHRISTIAN（即只在敎堂社交，其他一概不管）, 幾本上也不RELIGIOUS。

[ 本帖最後由 dye 於 2008-9-27 11:37 編輯 ]

dye

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_studies

Religious study is suppose to be a SECULAR study of ALL the religion.  It IS secular on the university level.

The Christian version of it is Christian Theology.  (Or just theology, but it will be confused with Islam theology, or any other religion with a god....)

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As weakest said, and from my observation of my little cousin in Christian school, the subject title is hijacked in HK by Christian base school.

dye

I don't think you are reading the research correctly.  It is only HOW the research is conducted.  It can be errenous.  Or it can just fitting for the particular location under research.

The reserach focus is about ATHEIST and CHRISTIAN.  If it realy want to test on religious, the t-shirt message is not right.  (Eastern religion, New Age religion may not have a god.)  

(Note:  If they wish to be all inclusive, they will have to ask... how often do you attend a mass, a mosque, a temple, a church, monastary, etc...  )

Try dictionary:
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/religious

Or news agency that play with words all the time

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/09/24/pakistan.bombing/index.html?iref=newssearch

"On Friday, a blast at an Islamic religious school there killed three students and wounded six others. That explosion occurred at a village about 15 km (9 miles) from Quetta."

Or maybe from government

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/03/17/tibet.american/index.html?iref=newssearch

"According to the U.S. State Department, Beijing's "repressive social and political controls continued to limit the fundamental freedoms of Tibetans and risked undermining Tibet's unique cultural, religious, and linguistic heritage."

[ 本帖最後由 dye 於 2008-9-29 21:44 編輯 ]

dye

那個時代和地點，人民一般信佛。倒不限於政治。

只要人活在社會，因公共事務而有政治是必然的事。我倒沒見過有僧侶完全脫離社會生活。