Question

3. Kessler summarizes William P. Alston’s nine characteristics of religion as: 1. Belief in supernatural beings (gods). 2. A distinction between sacred and profane objects. 3. Ritual acts focused on sacred objects. 4. A moral code believed to be sanctioned by the gods. 5. Characteristically religious feelings (awe, sense of mystery, sense of guilt, adoration), which tend to be aroused in the presence of sacred objects and during the practice of ritual, and which are connected in idea with the gods. 6. Prayer and other forms of communication with gods.

Answer 1

I hope in this 6 characteristics of religion out of 9.

You are asking for next 3 characteristics after above mentioned 6 are following-

7- The worldview picture contains specification of overall purpose

8- more or less total organization of ones life based on worldview

9-social group bound together by all of these