What is worship?
By dickkell
@dickkell (403)
United States
February 13, 2007 10:53pm CST
I am interested in hearing from a variety of religious and non-religious people on this. What exactly IS worship? Who or what should be worshipped in what ways?
4 responses
@cliff19id (306)
• Indonesia
19 Feb 07
back to our experience, i think that the good qworship is give the best. just it.
@RAMPersona (2033)
• Philippines
14 Feb 07
quoted from wikipedia.org
Worship usually refers to specific acts of religious praise, honour, or devotion, typically directed to a supernatural being such as a god or goddess. It is the informal term in English for what sociologists of religion call cultus, the body of practices and traditions that correspond to theology.
Religious worship may be performed individually, in informally organized groups, or as part of an organized service with a designated leader (as in a church, synagogue, temple, or mosque). In its older sense in the English language of worthiness or respect (Anglo-Saxon worthscripe), worship may sometimes refer to actions directed at members of higher social classes (such as lords or monarchs) or to particularly esteemed persons (such as a lover).
Typical acts of worship include:
prayer;
sacrifice (korban in Hebrew);
rituals;
some forms of meditation;
holidays, festivals;
pilgrimages;
hymns, psalms or worship music;
dance
the construction of temples or shrines;
the creation of idols of the deity.
living out Worship in Daily Life.