SYNOPSIS

MIND, SPACE AND MOVEMENT

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RELIGIOUS RECREATION

INTRODUCTION
Every now and then religious believers take their time to reach out to one or other form
of supreme figure to pray, to meditate, to recreate. Religious rituals, in various forms
and shapes give spiritual enhancement to the people. People feel hopeful, motivated,
inspired and boosted to run their lives ahead.

Spaces are created and human labour utilised for maintenance, to achieve religious
purposes. Time and wealth are spent in this means so one can revive the spiritual self.
This study aims to explore the day-to-day religious rituals in the perspective of
recreation.

What are the recreational values of religion? How the architectural, psychological and
physiological aspects of religious rituals contribute to the recreation of a person? How
mind, space and action work together and how much each aspect contributes
qualitatively for this achievement. The study will be done on 5 major global religions
namely; Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam and Judaism (Adherents).

AIM
To study how the architectural, psychological and physiological aspects of religious
rituals contribute to the recreation

OBJECTIVE
To establish recreational values of religion

To study basic religious rituals and their respective spaces, of major religions

To conduct comparative study and establish basic relations between the religious
rituals

METHODOLOGY
1. Literature study of the major religions
2. Study and analysis of religious rituals and respective architectural spaces
3. Literature study of psychology of posture and movement
4. Compilation of contributions of mind space and movement in religious
recreation
SCOPE

The study explores how

The comparative study attempts to

LIMITATION
The study is conducted only to 5 major global religions, based on population census.

Due to the nature of complexity of religious studies, the study is more focussed on
generalising the diverse views so that a common ground for comparison can be
achieved. Hence, diverse religious sects are ignored and the study is conducted on major
religious sects, based on population census. Variations in rituals also will be treated this
way.

Religions that exist today have undergone several iterations throughout history, a study
of the evolution of religion and also that of the rituals that evolved along with it would
be hectic. Such a study will be outside the scope allowed by the time limit.

REFERENCES
1. Siedenburg, Frederic(1920), The Recreational Value of Religion, Chicago:
American Journal of Sociology
2. Smith, Mary (1984),Psychology of Human Movement, Elsevier
3. The origin of consciousness in the breakdown of the bicameral mind