Religious Affiliation+ Practices+ Beliefs= Advocacy?

It had already been a month since school has started and this also means that I have been using the CDA textbook for about the same amount of time. It is quite embarrassing to admit that having to have had this book for quite a period, I still don’t fully know what the title means. The definitions of compose and design were obvious, but looking at the word “advocacy”, I knew that it was time to pull out my dictionary. After looking up the definition of the word (which means “giving aid to a cause”) I now understood what the question in the book was asking. In chapter five of CDA, one section asked how religious affiliations, practices and beliefs encourage and shape advocacy. In one way or another, all these three categories kind of interrelates and promotes advocacy in a similar way.
Religious affiliations unites people of all kinds into one to perform a task. In AVODAH, they particularly recruit Jews to join their program to help people of poverty. This could have
attracted many people of Judaism to join because they all share the same religion and could probably relate to each other. . A particular religion itself is already highly influential ,thus
people would most likely follow what ever their religion insists is the right thing to do. This is when religious practices plays a part in shaping advocacy. Mark Goodman from the AVODAH website had stated “ I always knew that Judaism commanded us to a mission of radically transforming out world into a more just and righteous place,” so simply because Judaism had always claimed that it was a duty to help the community, followers of the religion would do as they were told.
Although AVODAH is a Jewish bound program, that didn’t stop non-Jews from joining. As it was mentioned on the website, people are attracted to AVODAH because there are “committed to working for a social change.” The determination of wanting to establish a better place for the needs prompted others to volunteer to become part of the program. This shows that a person’s willpower and belief contributes to advocacy as well.