Culture vs. Religion
Religion and Culture are two terms that human beings sometimes are unable to decipher. Some people consider both of these as a part of each other, some people think they both are not entirely linked with each other. Here is a look at both these terms and what actually makes them relate able and different from each other. The main difference between these two terms is what originates these two words. Religion is something that has been started by the God, who has given humans a set of rules and regulations to follow, these instructions have been sent in the form of holy books and prophets, and there is no intervention of human beings in the way it is set. While Culture is something that people themselves start. It can be their way of living, depend on the circumstances, what type of area they are living in and many other factors. Religion comes from a single entity, and everyone has the right to practice it on their own without any influence. Culture, on the other hand, is the collective action of people living in a particular place, and each others action do control individuals. Some argue that religion and culture are similar in a way that both of them bring people together but that itself is not enough to prove these terms similar. Many factors determine them to be different from each other. In one sense it is correct to say that religion can be a part of culture while culture cannot be a part of worship. It is the faith which can influence people living a particular way of life and can become an important component of culture, but culture can have no influence of belief expect for the ease or difficulty of practicing it. In modern times, science and facts have become an important part of the culture, but religion, on the contrary, emphasizes on beliefs and theories. If these two terms are simplified even more, then it can be said that culture is related to societies while religion is associated with communities. It is, therefore, safe to say that culture and religion are not the same terms, but they are closely linked with each other.
Key Differences
Religion can be part of culture, and can shape it but culture cannot be part of religion, and neither can influence it.
Religion focuses more on the role of individual while culture concentrates on the role of a group of people.
Janet White
Jun 10, 2016
Religion is a set of rules that are provided by God while in Culture people create their own ways of living and moral codes.
Religion does not get influenced by external factors while culture can be modified depending on the external circumstances.
People can conveniently become part of different cultures, but they cannot get to experience multiple religions.
Harlon Moss
Jun 10, 2016
Religion can be best defined as a community irrespective of a location while Culture can be best defined by the word society, a group of individuals living in a particular area.
Janet White
Jun 10, 2016
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Comparison Chart
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Culture people create their own ways of living and moral codes.
Religion is a set of rules that are provided by God
Factors
Culture can be modified depending on the external circumstances.
Religion does not get influenced by external factors
Influence
Culture cannot be part of religion, and neither can influence it.
Religion can be part of culture, and can shape it
Relation
People can conveniently become part of different cultures
People cannot conveniently become part of a religion
Janet White
Jun 10, 2016
Culture and Religion Definitions
Culture
The arts, beliefs, customs, institutions, and other products of human work and thought considered as a unit, especially with regard to a particular time or social group
Edwardian culture.
Japanese culture.
Religion
The belief in and reverence for a supernatural power or powers, regarded as creating and governing the universe
Respect for religion.
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Culture
These arts, beliefs, and other products considered with respect to a particular subject or mode of expression
Musical culture.
Oral culture.
Religion
A particular variety of such belief, especially when organized into a system of doctrine and practice
The world's many religions.
Culture
The set of predominating attitudes and behavior that characterize a group or organization
A manager who changed the corporate culture.
Religion
A set of beliefs, values, and practices based on the teachings of a spiritual leader.
Culture
Mental refinement and sophisticated taste resulting from the appreciation of the arts and sciences
A woman of great culture.
Religion
The life or condition of a person in a religious order
A widow who went into religion and became a nun.
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Culture
Special training and development
Voice culture for singers and actors.
Religion
A cause, principle, or activity pursued with zeal or conscientious devotion
A person for whom art became a religion.
Culture
The cultivation of soil; tillage
The culture of the soil.
Religion
(uncountable) Belief in a spiritual or metaphysical reality (often including at least one deity), accompanied by practices or rituals pertaining to the belief.
My brother tends to value religion, but my sister not as much.
Culture
The breeding or cultivation of animals or plants for food, the improvement of stock, or other purposes.
Religion
(countable) A particular system of such belief, and the rituals and practices proper to it.
Belief system
Islam is a major religion, particularly in North Africa and Southwest Asia.
Mormonism is a new religion, while Zoroastrianism is an old one.
Culture
The growing of microorganisms, tissue cells, or other living matter in a specially prepared nutrient medium.
Religion
(uncountable) The way of life committed to by monks and nuns.
The monk entered religion when he was 20 years of age.
Culture
Such a growth or colony, as of bacteria.
Religion
Rituals and actions associated with religious beliefs, but considered apart from them.
I think some Christians would love Jesus more if they weren't so stuck in religion.
Jack's spiritual, but he's not really into religion.
Culture
To cultivate (soil or plants).
Religion
(countable) Any practice to which someone or some group is seriously devoted.
At this point, Star Trek has really become a religion.
Culture
To grow (microorganisms or other living matter) in a specially prepared nutrient medium.
Religion
Faithfulness to a given principle; conscientiousness.
Culture
To use (a substance) as a medium for culture
Culture milk.
Religion
Engage in religious practice.
Culture
The arts, customs, lifestyles, background, and habits that characterize humankind, or a particular society or nation.
Religion
Indoctrinate into a specific religion.
Culture
The beliefs, values, behaviour and material objects that constitute a people's way of life.
Religion
To make sacred or symbolic; sanctify.
Culture
The conventional conducts and ideologies of a community; the system comprising the accepted norms and values of a society.
Religion
The outward act or form by which men indicate their recognition of the existence of a god or of gods having power over their destiny, to whom obedience, service, and honor are due; the feeling or expression of human love, fear, or awe of some superhuman and overruling power, whether by profession of belief, by observance of rites and ceremonies, or by the conduct of life; a system of faith and worship; a manifestation of piety; as, ethical religions; monotheistic religions; natural religion; revealed religion; the religion of the Jews; the religion of idol worshipers.
An orderly life so far as others are able to observe us is now and then produced by prudential motives or by dint of habit; but without seriousness there can be no religious principle at the bottom, no course of conduct from religious motives; in a word, there can be no religion.
Religion [was] not, as too often now, used as equivalent for godliness; but . . . it expressed the outer form and embodiment which the inward spirit of a true or a false devotion assumed.
Religions, by which are meant the modes of divine worship proper to different tribes, nations, or communities, and based on the belief held in common by the members of them severally. . . . There is no living religion without something like a doctrine. On the other hand, a doctrine, however elaborate, does not constitute a religion.
Religion . . . means the conscious relation between man and God, and the expression of that relation in human conduct.
After the most straitest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.
The image of a brute, adornedWith gay religions full of pomp and gold.
Culture
(anthropology) Any knowledge passed from one generation to the next, not necessarily with respect to human beings.
Religion
Specifically, conformity in faith and life to the precepts inculcated in the Bible, respecting the conduct of life and duty toward God and man; the Christian faith and practice.
Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion.
Religion will attend you . . . as a pleasant and useful companion in every proper place, and every temperate occupation of life.
Culture
(botany) Cultivation.
Religion
A monastic or religious order subject to a regulated mode of life; the religious state; as, to enter religion.
A good man was there of religion.
Culture
(microbiology) The process of growing a bacterial or other biological entity in an artificial medium.
Religion
Strictness of fidelity in conforming to any practice, as if it were an enjoined rule of conduct.
Those parts of pleading which in ancient times might perhaps be material, but at this time are become only mere styles and forms, are still continued with much religion.
Culture
The growth thus produced.
I'm headed to the lab to make sure my cell culture hasn't died.
Religion
A strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny;
He lost his faith but not his morality
Culture
A group of bacteria.
Religion
Institution to express belief in a divine power;
He was raised in the Baptist religion
A member of his own faith contradicted him
Culture
(cartography) The details on a map that do not represent natural features of the area delineated, such as names and the symbols for towns, roads, meridians, and parallels.
Culture
(archaeology) A recurring assemblage of artifacts from a specific time and place that may constitute the material culture remains of a particular past human society.
Culture
(euphemism) Ethnicity, race (and its associated arts, customs, etc.)
Culture
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Culture
(transitive) to increase the artistic or scientific interest in something cultivate}}
Culture
The act or practice of cultivating, or of preparing the earth for seed and raising crops by tillage; as, the culture of the soil.
Culture
The act of, or any labor or means employed for, training, disciplining, or refining the moral and intellectual nature of man; as, the culture of the mind.
If vain our toilWe ought to blame the culture, not the soil.
Culture
The state of being cultivated; result of cultivation; physical improvement; enlightenment and discipline acquired by mental and moral training; civilization; refinement in manners and taste.
What the Greeks expressed by their paidei`a, the Romans by their humanitas, we less happily try to express by the more artificial word culture.
The list of all the items of the general life of a people represents that whole which we call its culture.
Culture
The cultivation of bacteria or other organisms (such as fungi or eukaryotic cells from mulitcellular organisms) in artificial media or under artificial conditions.
Culture
Those details of a map, collectively, which do not represent natural features of the area delineated, as names and the symbols for towns, roads, houses, bridges, meridians, and parallels.
Culture
To cultivate; to educate.
They came . . . into places well inhabited and cultured.
Culture
A particular society at a particular time and place;
Early Mayan civilization
Culture
The tastes in art and manners that are favored by a social group
Culture
All the knowledge and values shared by a society
Culture
(biology) the growing of microorganisms in a nutrient medium (such as gelatin or agar);
The culture of cells in a Petri dish
Culture
(bacteriology) the product of cultivating micro-organisms in a nutrient medium
Culture
A highly developed state of perfection; having a flawless or impeccable quality;
They performed with great polish
I admired the exquisite refinement of his prose
Almost an inspiration which gives to all work that finish which is almost art
Culture
The attitudes and behavior that are characteristic of a particular social group or organization;
The developing drug culture
The reason that the agency is doomed to inaction has something to do with the FBI culture
Culture
The raising of plants or animals;
The culture of oysters
What is Culture?
Culture can be defined as the beliefs and actions of a particular group of people who are influenced by different factors. There is no one definition of this term and people can explain it differently but if there is one word to correctly describe culture it has to be society. Individuals who live in a particular area and are more open to change because of the circumstances that affect everyone. Many other factors such as weather, music, ethnicity, food, habits and even religion can be termed as part of culture. It is created by people for people, all the laws and moral values are created by the people and is not something cast in stone. It keeps on evolving with time and just like people change, culture changes. It lets factors like technology and reasoning shape the way people live their lives and believe in people communicating with each other at personal levels.
What is Religion?
Religion is defined as simply as worship of one entity and a set of beliefs provided by that entity. People live their life based on some fundamental laws and ethos which have been given to them in the form of a holy book or by the teachings of a prophet. One term cannot define religion, but they do not change by external factors and no matter what type of place, people, and circumstances, there can be no change in religion. Individuals who follow religion form a community that is not dependent on a particular area, and they follow the same way of living as other people in their community. Instead of reasoning and facts, people stick to their beliefs. However less logic there is. It focuses more on individualism and how people practice their faith is up to themselves. It provides a moral code to people who have to follow it and if they fail to comply they have to be answerable for themselves. It does not evolve with time, and people cannot make changes in it depending on their circumstances.
