Religions - Beliefs - Spiritualities

Religion comes from the Latin word religio, which was defined by Cicero (a statesman and brilliant Roman orator) as "the fact of attending to a higher nature that is called divine and worshipping it". Religion is seen as a set of beliefs that characterise man's relationship with the sacred. It is also a set of practices specific to a belief or a social group. Religion implies adherence to certain beliefs, convictions and dogmas.

The Larousse dictionary defines belief as "the fact of believing in the existence of someone or something, in the truth of a doctrine or thesis".

The Robert dictionary defines spirituality as "beliefs and practices concerning the life of the soul, the spiritual life". 

On closer inspection, it is logical to note that there are different forms of spirituality for different religions and beliefs.

Religions and beliefs and the different forms of spirituality they entail are, among other things, elements shared by human beings throughout the world in the diversity of their orientations.

Beyond the natural human desire to understand things, we are traversed, directly or indirectly, by the "waves" of different spiritualities. Whether in the home, on the street, in schools or any other public environment, we meet people with or without the same spiritual orientations.

Through this section of EcolesAuCameroun.com, we will be proposing subjects for reflection on religions, beliefs and spiritualities.