The Role of Arabic Language, and Religion in the 21st Century

Abstract

This paper shall look at Religion in the 21st century, Tylor defined religion simply as ‘belief in supernatural beings. Tylor caused him to distinguished between three varieties of Religious tradition animism (the belief that nature objects such as trees are rivers are ‘a live’ with spirits polytheism, the belief in a plurality of gods), and monotheism (belief in a single god, as held by Judaism, Christianity and Islam). The term ‘supernatural beings, being somewhat a wider variety of religious traditions, Tylor’s definition of religion can be labeled, ‘supernaturalist as well as ‘substantive’ since he claimed that the defining characteristic of religion is what lies beyond the physical world namely a supernatural realm. There are many good books that introduces the world’s religion as specific religious traditions. Yet students who are embarking on the study of religion are typically introduced to more abstract methodological issues, rather than the religions themselves. In the 21st century in the British context, developed in the new universities and teacher training colleges, involved creating departments to train teachers. This has developed since 1944 Education Act insisted upon religious education being an essential part of both primary and secondary curricula. In Britain, the increasing plurality and focus on promoting multicultural values has led to many Religious Education teachers taking their pupils to visit places of worship consequently, most teacher-training programmes in higher education, and Religious studies departments that have developed in colleges whose historical focus has been teacher, have provided field work activities on their degrees. Most departments of theology and religious studies in Britain will probably have originated from the study of Christianity, introducing other discrete religion such as Islam, Hinduism or Buddhism and the social science, contributions to the study of religion. Religion, then, can be defined as a system of belief and practices by means of which group of peoples struggles with these ultimate problems of human life. It expresses their refusal to capitulate the death, to give up inface of frusteration, to allow hostility to tear apart their human aspiration.