The Buddha s Five Precepts summarize his ethical base. Social Dimension includes both religious institutions that arise from religious systems of belief, and the reality of how the religion is lived out. The Christian church, Jewish synagogue, Buddhist monastery, Hindu temple, and Sufi ashram are all institutional illustrations of the social dimension. An individual s hope for, or experience of, contact with the invisible world is the basis of all religious phenomena. In fact, the personal religious experience of single individuals lies at the root of many of the world s great religions, most conspicuously Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism.
Religious experience is the fact, of which all other dimensions are simply elaborations.
Additional pages on religious practices Phenomenology Buddhism Christianity Islam Judaism Native American Religion Return to Stormwind Additional Reading Eliade, Mircea. The Sacred and the Profane. Harcourt, Brace. 1968. The Idea of the Holy, 2nd edition. Oxford University Press.