Question

1. Does religion provide its own unique habitus, or is religion just one ingredient in a habitus?

2. How might the performance of ritual help to create a particular kind of habitus in a person?

Answer 1

Religion is a belief in a god or and the activities that are connected with this belief, such as praying or worshipping in a building such as a temple or church. Religion provided an answer by introducing beliefs about an all-knowing, all-powerful God who punishes moral transgressions. Habitus is Bourdieu's most influential yet ambiguous concepts. It refers to the physical embodiment of cultural capital, to the deeply ingrained habits, skills, and dispositions that we possess due to our life experiences. religious commitments marginal to the core dimensions of social and cultural life, thus habitus is concerned with those external forces that manage to shape the body.

A ritual is a sequence of activities involving gestures, words, actions, or objects, performed in a sequestered place and according to a set sequence. Rituals may be prescribed by the traditions of a community, including a religious community. Rituals generate group emotions that are linked to symbols, forming the basis for beliefs, thinking, morality, and culture. Habitus and rituals play a fundamental role in humans life. Habits and rituals offer a common ground that can help to stimulate the discussion among different religions, so we can say that rituals can create a particular habitus in a peron.