Belief Systems Flashcards
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belief systems
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- most societies were polytheistic
- social stratification
- animism
- shamanism
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Hinduism
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- Aryans
- Brahma
- goal is to break cycle of life and death, to receive Moksha
- caste system
- Dharma, live moral duty
- Karma helps being born into new caste after being reborn
- no sacred texts
- always kept India together
- Vedhas, Rig-Vedha
- travels into south east Asia and other parts of the world
- reincarnation
- patriarchal society, women cannot reach Moksha
- Sati
- classical India
- helped bring classical Indian society back togehter
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Buddhism
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- reach Nirvanha in one lifetime, appealing to poor and lower caste
- founder Siddhartha Gautama
- four noble truths
- anyone in Buddhism can reach nirvanha
- universal religion
- appealed to poor
- offered monastic lifestyle for men and women
4
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three major universal religions
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- Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam
5
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Ashoka
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- kept Buddhism from dying out in India
- helped spread it
6
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Confucianism
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- cultural belief
- not really a religion
- came out of Waring States period in China
- started by Confucius
- relied heavily on education, virtue, order, and respect
- based on filial piety
- subject to ruler, son to father, younger brother to older brother, wife to husband, junior friend to senior friend
- Analects
- civil service system created in the Han
- blend of Confucianism and Buddhism eventually (Neo-Confucianism)
- brings order and stability, education is praised, respect for elders, civil service exams
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Daoism
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- Warring States period in China
- stresses harmony
- good versus evil
- axial age
- promoted scientific discovery: astronomy, botony, chemistry, fireworks
- harmony with nature, influence on Chinese culture
8
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Lao Tzu
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- preached Daoism
9
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Judaism
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- middle east
- first great monothestic faith
- influenced Christianity and Islam
- people had covenant with god, founder was Abraham
10
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Christianity
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- monotheistic
- developed out of Judaism
- found was Jesus
- Jesus lived his life, died, and was resurrected
- worlds largest religion today and universal religion
- spread after the Fall of Rome
- strong appeal to poor and woman, also rich
- not embraced by early Roman Empire
- spread through Mediterranean world
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Islam
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- universal religion
- Mohammad founder
- united Bedouin nomads of Arab Peninsula
- spread through conquest and missionary activity./trade
- one of fastest spreading religions today
12
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in ___________, practiced in classical India, there was no central founder or holy figure
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- Hinduism
13
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neo-confucianism was the blending of ________
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- Buddhism and Confucianism
14
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in _______, moksha is the transcendent state and release from reincarnation
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- Hinduism
15
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one of the central tenets of _____ is that all suffering comes from desire
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- Buddhism
