CONTEMPO WORLD (RELIGION) Flashcards
WHAT: the networking and expansion of once local products, beliefs, and practices into universal products, beliefs and practices often through technology.
Globalization
WHAT: a collection of cultural systems, belief systems, and world views that establishes symbols that relate humanity to spirituality and to moral values
Religion
The World’s Major Religions
✓Hinduism
✓Buddhism
✓Judaism
✓Islam
✓Christianity
RELIGIOUS CLASSIFICATION
Polytheism
Monotheism
Atheism
Animism
RELIGIOUS CLASSIFICATION: Multiple gods
POLYTHEISM
RELIGIOUS CLASSIFICATION: Single god
MONOTHEISM
RELIGIOUS CLASSIFICATION: No deities
ATHEISM
RELIGIOUS CLASSIFICATION: Nonhuman beings
(Animals, plants,
natural world)
ANIMISM
RELIGIOUS CLASSIFICATION:
Hinduism, Ancient
Greeks, and Romans
POLYTHEISM
RELIGIOUS CLASSIFICATION:
Judaism, Islam, Christianity
MONOTHEISM
RELIGIOUS CLASSIFICATION:
Atheism, Buddhism and Taoism
ATHEISM
RELIGIOUS CLASSIFICATION: Indigenous Nature Worship, Shintoism
ANIMISM
WHO/WHAT THEY BELIEVE: Hinduism
Multiple gods
WHO/WHAT THEY BELIEVE: Buddhism
Siddartha Gautama
WHO/WHAT THEY BELIEVE: Islam
Allah (God)
Muhammad
WHO/WHAT THEY BELIEVE: Christianity
Holy Trinity
Jesus Christ
WHO/WHAT THEY BELIEVE: Judaism
God
Abraham
Moses
EMILE DURKHEIM’S THREE MAJOR FUNCTIONS IN SOCIETY
Social Cohesion
Social Control
Provides Meaning and Purpose
MAJOR FUNCTIONS IN SOCIETY: help maintain social solidarity, harmony, unity by sharing rituals and beliefs
Social Cohesion
MAJOR FUNCTIONS IN SOCIETY: enforce religious-based morals and norms to help maintain conformity and control in society
Social Control
MAJOR FUNCTIONS IN SOCIETY: answer any existential questions
Provides Meaning and Purpose
MEANS ON DISSEMINATION OF RELIGIOUS IDEAS
❄ Information Technologies
❄ Transportation
❄ Media
WHAT: an unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims.
Terrorism
RELIGION: teaches that there is only one God and that “in the beginning” this God spoke the entire universe into existence.
Christianity
CHRISTIANITY: Adam and Eve tend the garden in which they live, and are free to eat from any tree except the…
Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil
CHRISTIANITY: Many generations after Adam, God chooses a man named _______ to make into a great nation. A nation that will one day birth a Messiah to release mankind from the bondage of sin and death.
Abraham
CHRISTIANITY: The word _______is used to describe an act that pays for or erases one’s sins and transgressions
atonement
CHRISTIANITY: The resurrected Christ appears to many people over a span of ________ before he bodily ascends into heaven. From there he rules and reigns with God the Father and sends the Holy Spirit to teach his followers.
forty days
Christians call the message of Jesus Christ the Gospel, meaning the…
good news
RELIGION: Based on the teachings of Siddhartha Gautama, who lived about 25 centuries ago in what is now Nepal and northeastern India.
Buddhism
BUDDHISM: He came to be called “the Buddha,” which means ______ after he experienced a profound realization of the nature of life, death and existence
awakened one
The most common estimate of the number of Buddhists in the world today is _______ which makes Buddhism the fourth largest of the world’s religions.
350 million
Instead of teaching doctrines to be memorized and believed, the Buddha taught how we can realize truth for ourselves. The focus of Buddhism is on _______
practice rather than belief.
Basic Teachings of Buddhism: The foundation of Buddhism is the Four Noble Truths.
- The truth of suffering (dukkha)
- The truth of the cause of suffering (samudaya)
- The truth of the end of suffering (nirhodha)
- The truth of the path that frees us from suffering (magga)
RELIGION: simply means peace through submission to God. For a fifth of the world’s population, it is both a religion and a complete way of life.
Islam
The three Abrahamic traditions
Judaism (2000 BC, the oldest)
Christianity (26 AD)
Islam (610 AD)
five pillars of practice in Islam
Shahadah
Salat
Sawm
Zakat
Hajj
FIVE PILLARS OF PRACTICE IN ISLAM: declaration of faith in the oneness of God and that Muhammad is the last prophet of God
Shahadah
FIVE PILLARS OF PRACTICE IN ISLAM: Payer five times a day
Salat
FIVE PILLARS OF PRACTICE IN ISLAM: Fasting during the daylight hours in the month of Ramadan.
Sawm
FIVE PILLARS OF PRACTICE IN ISLAM: Poor-due charity - 2.5% of one’s savings given to the needy at the end of each year.
Zakat
FIVE PILLARS OF PRACTICE IN ISLAM: Pilgrimage to Mecca at least once, if physically and financially able.
Hajj
ISLAM: A book that is a collection of sayings and stories about the prophet
Hadith
Single set of laws that all Muslim Follow
Sharia
six articles of faith in Islam
belief in:
A) The One God.
B) All the Prophets of God.
C) The original scriptures revealed to Prophets Moses, David, Jesus, and Muhammad.
D) The Angels.
E) The Day of Judgment and the Hereafter.
F) The divine decree (or destiny).
To become Muslim, a person of any race or culture must say a simple statement, the (or the “witnessing”), that bears witness to the belief in the One God and that Prophet Muhammad was the last Prophet of God.
“shahadah”
ISLAM’s first Caliph
Abu Bakr (Muhammad’s father in law)
Two major sects of Islam
Sunni (Abu Bakr)
Shia (Ali)
______ embrace Islam without any military campaigns
Mongols