October 17 (Monday)- Work day.
October 18 (Tuesday)- Started watching religion video notes below.
October 19 (Wednesday)- Continued watching religion video.
October 20 (Thursday)- Finished watching religion videos. Started Mr. Bruns presentation on religion. Notes below
October 21 (Friday)- No school
5 Major Religions of the World:
Academic versus theological perspective
Studying Religion:
- Does not make value judgement about the validity of a religion
- Does not preach one religion over the other
- Focuses on the history and beliefs of the religion
Animism
- Is the belief that all living and nonliving things in nature have a spirit
- Belief system of many early civilizations
- Early civilizations was often combined with ancestor worship
What is a religion?
- An organized system of beliefs, ceremonies, practices, and worship that centers on one or more gods
What is the point of religion? To explain different beliefs
Hinduism-
Based out of India
- Began 4,000 years ago
- Mainly made of ancient people know as Aryans
- Oldest words religions j
- Largely based on vedas
- They are Polytheistic
- Karma
- Cause and effect
- Moksha
- Gotten out of the samsara cycle
- Stopped being reborn
- Dharma
- Live on the path of the good life
- Reincarnation
- Based on how you lived in your previous life
- 3rd largest religion in the world
Buddhism-
- Based out of China
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