phil3010

PHIL 3010

7/20/2021

The artifact of Perceived Religious Discrimination, Religiosity, and Life Satisfaction: refer to found that religious discrimination negatively impacts an individual's life satisfaction. For example, the varying degree of religious discrimination among many religions with the highest number of discrimination includes Jews, Muslims, and Sikhs. The effects of religious intolerance on wellbeing and life satisfaction are equal to the effects of major life events such as unemployment and widowhood. The other article, "Happiness in Bangladesh: The Role of Religion and Connectedness," found that some religions are happier than others. For example, Muslims tend to be happier than Hindus in Bangladesh. The article aims at correcting the notion that religion is not correlated to wellbeing.

In this same artefact mentioned on the first paragraph, we found that religious discrimination leads to negative effects on an individual's wellbeing or life satisfaction. Despite the most discriminated religions being Jews, Muslims, and Sikhs, religious discrimination leads to a decrease of wellbeing in major and minor groups. Therefore, religious discrimination correlates to the well-being of an individual. The article also explains that the effects of religious discrimination are not uniform in all religious traditions. For example, "Buddhism's emphasis on non-attachment might explain why very few Buddhists perceived religious discrimination and the wellbeing of members who encountered religious discrimination was not diminished," (Vang, 1927). Therefore, the emphasis on non-material attachment is a natural buffer to reducing religious discrimination thus healthy wellbeing. Religiosity among group members is another way people can reduce the effects of religious discrimination by tapping and being close to other members. Having personal relationships and closeness to their deity is another way of buffering life satisfaction, unlike people that avoid such relations but claim to be religious.

The artifact of the “Happiness in Bangladesh: The Role of Religion and Connectedness," article shows that religion is correlated to a person's wellbeing and life satisfaction. For example, Muslims have higher rates of happiness compared to Hindus. The authors conduct a study in which they found Muslims in Achingaon and Baniknagar are likely to be happier than Hindus relatively. However, the authors denote that religion is associated with happiness, but the comfort of living among other Muslims does the magic. The article suggests that being in certain religion does not make some happy, but the environment in which they find themselves does. The article associates the place that an individual lives with their happiness rather than their religion. In the article, the Buddhists in Achingaon are not happy because they do not feel at home and do not like the country, which differs from the perspective of Muslims who seem happy and satisfied.

Religious activities belief in a certain religion does not promote wellbeing or life satisfaction in some cases. For example, the effects of religious discrimination in minor and major religions such as Muslims and Jews are similar to the effects of major life problems such as unemployment. Therefore, religious discrimination correlates to the wellbeing or life satisfaction of an individual. Religion does not promote wellbeing or life satisfaction, as was found in the study between Muslims and Buddhists. The Muslims were happier than Buddhists because of living close to other Muslims, unlike the Buddhists who were not at peace which later affected their wellbeing. Therefore, religion, directly and indirectly, impacts an individual's wellbeing or life satisfaction.

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