module 1 unit 1

Question 1

Factors influencing people towards and away from religion

Answer 1

contexts of a persons life, the experiences each person has in life and the world they live in.

Question 2

WHAT ARE SOCIAL FACTORS?

Answer 2

Cultural (attitudes, lifestyles, traditions)

Historical (past events and their consequences)

Socio-economic status (disadvantage/hardship, wealth/power)

Political ideologies (secularist, anti-establishment, contrasting morals)

People (saints, leaders, celebrities, significant family/friends)

Question 3

social factors that hinder

Answer 3

Social attitudes and philosophies that promote, marginalise or reject religion and/or religious matters; these can include, for example, some forms of secularism, militant atheism, and Christian humanism • Political ideologies and administrations; for instance in a theocracy or in a communist society

Question 4

Religion

Answer 4

a complex of beliefs and practices, which point to a set of values and an understanding of the meaning of existence.

Question 5

Christianity

Answer 5

is a religion with many denominations including Catholicism and baptist

Question 6

Multiculturalism

Answer 6

the cultural and ethnic diversity in Australia

Question 7

Pluralism

Answer 7

operates on the principles of acceptance and diversity

Question 8

Secularism

Answer 8

the separation of church and state (government) such that there is freedom to be religious.

Question 9

Secularisation

Answer 9

becoming less religion

disassociation or separation from religious or spiritual concerns

Question 10

secular society

Answer 10

non religious people

Question 11

• What is meant by ‘separation of church and state’

Answer 11

The principle that government must maintain an attitude of neutrality toward religion.

Question 12

• When Australia is said to be ‘a secular society’ what possible meanings can this have?

Answer 12

As a result, a state may have a relatively high level of interaction with religion and still be considered secular so long as the state does not interfere

Question 13

• Explain where the Australian Constitution states that Australia is a secular society. Please quote from the Constitution Paragraph 116

Answer 13

precludes the Commonwealth of Australia (i.e., the federal parliament) from making laws for establishing any religion, imposing any religious observance, or prohibiting the free exercise of any religion.

Question 14

“establishment of religion

Answer 14

when they came from England they brought their own church

Buddha came to Aus and stablished Buddhist