The Study of Religion course concludes with the focus on the four religious motives (spiritual, personal, social and cognitive) that shape religion. The following are some examples of each and how they relate to the specific motive.
             The Spiritual motive is the desire a person feels for the prospect of feeling joy and whole, or the connection to the sacred.
             1) For the Thich Nhat Hanh it's the purpose to live in mindfulness, overcoming the false view of themselves which frees them for compassion and engages them within universal life.
             2) With the emphasis of sacred objects, the special experience to be taken by the visit to the On the focus of Sacred objects, for the Islams, the Pilgramage, the fifth pillar, is expected of every able Muslim to journey to Mecca where God's sensational revelation first descended. The Pilgramage is to heighten the commitment to God and his will and serves as a reminder of human equality.
             Personal Motive: pursuit for security and support
             1) One of the central themes of Busshism is compassion and the sense of connection with and the regard for all beings.
             2) For Judiasm and Christians it's the connection with a personal God as a God who loves and cares for us that provides the security, and supports the feeling that we're loved and cared for by a moral God demonstrates the personal motive.
             3) Within Buddhism, the Mahayana's believe that their God is there to work for their behalf with grace, however there's a different belief by the Theravadas, who believe that they are on their own to overcome troubles in life - no God works for us.
             Social Motive: Quest for group harmony and identify with rituals and ethics:
             1) From a social perspective, the women within the Islam religion have seen great improvements over the years leading to group harmony within their culture by improving the status of their women. Including the inheritance laws fo...