LESSON 1.1 - RELIGION AND CIVILIZATION
RELIGION
- Religious beliefs are one way a civilization can define or describe itself.
- Religion also affects people's values and actions.
WHY RELIGION?
- Humans have always asked questions about why we are on the earth.
- Questions like: Why do bad things happen? and What happens to me after I die?
- Human beings like to have answers to their questions.
- Scientific questions are based on a hypothesis and then experiments to discover if the original question was correct.
- With religious questions, people have to accept answers that are based on faith.
DIFFERENT RELIGIONS, DIFFERENT ANSWERS
- There are many religions in the world and each has different answers to the "big questions."
- The answers to the "big questions" have no scientifically provable answers so no one religion has the "right" answers.
- Different religions around the world have developed over thousands of years.
- In the past it was common for everyone in the same country to follow the same religion.
- People began asking questions like "What if people disagreed?" and "What if someone came up with new answers to the big questions?"
- Today, religion is often a catalyst for disagreements and sometimes war.
- In some places in the world people of different religious beliefs live side by side, but cannot get along, and sometimes they can.
MAIN RELIGIONS OF THE WORLD
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- BUDDHISM
- No Gods
- After death there is rebirth or enlightenment
- Practices: Living by the Five Precepts and The Noble Eightfold Path
- Holy Book: Tipitaka
- Place of Worship: Vihara (temple)
- Religious Leader: Lama (teacher)
- # of Followers today: 2.0% = 490 million people
- One God - in the form of the Trinity (God, Jesus, Holy Spirit)
- After death there is Heaven or Hell
- Practices: Prayer, church attendance, Eucharist
- Holy Book: Old and New Testament
- Place of Worship: Church or chapel
- Religious Leader: Priest or Minister
- # of Followers today: 30% = 2 billion
- Many which are all manifestations of One God.
- After death there is Rebirth
- Practices: Living according to one's role in life (dharma) and worship of a god (Puja) using yoga and meditation.
- Holy Book: Vedas/Bhagavad Gita
- Place of Worship: Mandir (temple)
- Religious Leader: Brahmin; guru
- # of Followers today: 14% = 1 billion
4. ISLAM
- One God - Allah and Prophet - Mohammad
- After death there is Paradise (Jannah) or Hell (Jahannam)
- Practices: Living by the Five Pillars (eating halal food, pray 5 times a day, no alcohol)
- Holy Book: Koran (Qur'an)
- Place of Worship: Mosque
- Religious Leader: Imam
- # of Followers today: 23% = 1.6 billion
5. JUDAISM
- One God
- After death there is the "World to Come" or Heaven and Hell
- Practices: Following commandments of the Torah (eating kosher food and praying 3 times a day)
- Holy Book: Torah and Talmud
- Place of Worship: Synagogue
- Religious Leader: Rabbi
- # of Followers today: .20% = 14 million
6. SIKHISM
- One God (Ik Onkar)
- After death there is rebirth until merging with the soul
- Practices: Prayer, wearing the Five K's (articles of faith), Langar (community meals), being mindful of God, doing good deeds.
- Holy Book: Sri Guru Granth Sahib
- Place of Worship: Gurdwara
- No Religious Leader
- # of Followers today: .34% = 23 million
STUDENT ACTIVITY
Students are to blog about the question below.
Make sure to include facts from your research.
Students can either write a story, a poem, or a paragraph answering the following question:
HOW CAN RELIGION AFFECT CIVILIZATION?
REFERENCES:
Cranny, Michael. (2012). Pathways - Civilizations Through Time. Pearson. Toronto.
religions can efect civilisatins if one guy is christion and one guy is athiest they wiull prob hate eachother but if they are bolth cristian they will get along why cant people just get along and there woulkd be no religions the world would be way better and here would be less war and less judgemedntal people. tristen harder
ReplyDeleteGreat points Tristen. I would also like people to just get along. What a wonderful world that would be.
Deletecivilizations are affected by religion alot it helps bind them togerther or tear them apart take the gaza isreal conflict as an example the people from isreal are a tight knit group of people all bound together by religion as are the people from gaza none of the contrys want to admit defeat.
ReplyDeleteGreat job Griffin. I like that you used a topic that is recent and use it to explain your point.
Deletewith all the religions people lie about one anothers beliefs and this will start a fight between them and that is usually how wars begin.
ReplyDeletesay that buddhisam and Islam came toghether they would fight over if there is a god or not because buddhisam belives there is no god and they will back there thoughts up with fighting. so bacilly saying that if we all come toghether there will be a war.by lloyd and hunter
Lloyd you did a great job of using your text resource to explain and prove your point. Very impressive.
DeleteReligion affects civilization because...
ReplyDeleteEveryone has a different religion and that affects their beliefs and ways of celebration. Some days you take time away from your regular routine to practice that religion. You also may eat a diffrent food. You may have to dress diffrent. Some religions have certian rules that are ment to be followed.
This shows you have a good understanding of the content. Try using examples from your research to show what you know!
Deleteso the most popular religen is cristeanity. budism has 490 million fallowers. so u get the point there are a few religens. some people dis others because of it but some people don't
ReplyDeleteGreat observation of possible discrimination. Try to use full words and sentences next time and include research from the text in your explanation.
Deletejudaism caused a big deal with hitler many many years ago but it wasnt the jews fault. people say that jewish people are people are that make money there first proritey.i would say judaism isnt a big deal they are people and so are we people make a big deal over and say i need some one that is good with money i am going to find a jew so i would say that cuased a big deal
ReplyDeleteYou seem to be very accepting of many races and religions. Sometimes the tone of the word Jew is not taken the proper way, so the correct way of re-writing your sentence would look like this: "I will find someone of the Jewish faith....."
Deleteit can effect the religion cause some religions have different belves like on religion doesnt have a god so they wont go to church and the other person is trying to make them.
ReplyDeleteby Jericho
You seem to have a good understanding of some religions. Please watch your spelling.
DeleteI think it can efect it because some religons could be in the same building and then they say something about each others culture. Really big figth could break out and the fight will build and build until no more show up. i would think it would be better if they just kept there coments to them self instead of spred them around there religon and then the religon that they are talking about finds out and they get really mad at that culture and start a war or like bomb where they are stayig/live. Whwn people dont get along they have a lot of fights and they get really out of controll. They should get the cultures together and have a talk with them about respect. it could efect how people live and they would think different about each other and not the way the used to. It's like trust.
ReplyDeleteYou have some great ideas here Sterling, great job.
Deletei think it could affect the civilization because there religons have there own beliefes and that could affect the civilization because they could start a fight ect
ReplyDeleteGreat start. Try to use a bit more information from your research to really help get your point across.
DeleteReligion can be a huge part in civilization. It can even control a civilization. If more than one religion is involved in a civilization, that can cause problems. Battles can break out, wars can be fought, descrimination can be used. All because two or more religions do not see eye to eye. This can even happen when a religion's beliefs are split up (ei. Catholic Christianity and Angligan Christianity).
ReplyDeleteSometimes a civiization sharing religions is no problem at all.
Sometimes, a religion's custom can be shared with the civilization itself (ie. Christamas is celebrated by many people of many religions these days).
When people practice religion in a civilization, that is not where the religion originated, this religion may become altered (ie. Islam religion in Canada is different than in Saudi Arabia.)
By Cece and Kyla
Great explanation girls. You do a great job of melding your own thoughts with the research you have done. Keep up the good work.
Deletewell i think there are more people who belive in there relgions then people who dont because they get it from there family and when they marrie somone they want them to belive in the same relgoin not marrie someone who does not belive but if they want to belive there is no problem with that.
ReplyDeleteby:rayna antoine. november 21/2012
I like the connection you made with the family. Please try to expand on your ideas using the text to prove your point.
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ReplyDeleteReligion can affect civilization because it divides people, a bunch of people can be in one room and completely hate each other. If we could all just accept that people think differently Than the world would be a better place.
I think the world can be a better place too. We need to lead the steps to paying it forward:)
DeleteReligion affects a civilization's laws and rights.Some people's beliefs affect how laws affect them, because according to their religion, some laws against them may seem unfair or unjust. Their rights in their religion may be different in the civilization they live in.
ReplyDeleteKeya Belin
This is a very clear observation. I'm impressed that you made that correlation between civilization and religion.
DeleteA lot of religions are creating bigger and bigger groupd and one day maybe we are only gunna have a small group that in non religious most people celebrate holidays, like easter and christmas but some of those people are'nt even christian they know of it as a world wide holdiday so if there were no religions there would be no holdidays, we would have nothing to look forward to and keep us going through the year!
ReplyDelete-Codey and Tasia!!!!!
I like holidays very much as well, but I think we would still have holidays they just wouldn't be religious based.
DeletePeople belive in different reliogion and we all end up fighting about it. its dumb beacasue we all should just leave each other alone so there will not be anymore wars.
ReplyDeleteI agree that we should just leave each other alone..........great job!
Deletereglion can effect civiliztions…
ReplyDeleteeveryone has there own belifes that intitle of there own opinion. Like sikhism they have 23 million followers.
Good attempt at using research material to back up your point.
DeleteI think religion can affect civilizations by peoples beliefs. If some people believe in one thing and another believes in something else, that could cause disagreements, arguments, wars, etc. between the two groups. Not everyone has the same beliefs or religion.
ReplyDeleteWe do see a lot of wars that seem to be started because of peoples different beliefs....great observation.
Deletekaty harry
ReplyDeleteChistianity I dont think it would affect our civiliation because well I think people hind their religion or just tell pacfic people, but I think people dont care what their religion is or what they believe in because we all believe in something diffrent than others in our own way , and with diffrent people that believe in the same thing as them.
Religions affect civilization because people always fight about religions and try to get others to join there religion and so on
ReplyDeleteI think people should just get along and not be like hating on each other for there religion because it starts wars etc.. its not a good thing. people die because they are christian or hindu or anything like that. i think people should just lay off. then maybe there will be less wars
ReplyDeleteJessica
ReplyDeletethe religions affect our civilizations because everybodys always fighting and going against other peoples religions, why can't we all just get along?