Religion 2unit HSC NOTES - Post 1940s
religion 2unit hsc notes religion and belief systems in austrlia post 1945
Contemprary aboriginal spirualities aboriinal spirituality as determined by the dreaming
Dreaming
Dreaming describes an enormous variety of spiritual beliefs and not a single unified systems; it refers to all that is known and understood by aboriginal. It is central spiritual concept, determines not only beliefs and values and religions with people and the environment
Aboriginals believe they are related to the natural world which provides advantages of life and survival in environment also imposes the responsibilities of preservations and education
Responsibilities include conservation of natural and social environments by providing laws and cultural mores and taboos to be followed and passed on by elders to next gens
Beliefs are imbedded in body of knowledge’s transmitted through storytelling
Story provides accounts of creation and explain the natural order of all living and non-living things
Everything in the world was established by creation ancestors
Human, plants, animals and landscape features were made perfectly by ancestral beings
All that was required of the human inhabitants was to listen, take care and continue to respect earthborn law handed down by the creation ancestors
Dreaming stories explain how to hunt and gather food, how the landscape evolved, how to make tools, where clady and ochres are found and how to use them in ceremonies
Dreaming stories explain the location and purpose of sacred places, connect a place with a particular creation ancestor and sets down what knowledge is secret and what she can be shared
Songs, art, stories and ceremonies brought the people closer to the creation ancestors by bringing them to life
Kinship
Unbreakable (inextricable) bond exists between aboriginal and their land
Skin names – show kinship and relationships (totem names “kangaroo man” these affect who one can marry, marriages are forbidden with a
Contemprary aboriginal spirualities aboriinal spirituality as determined by the dreaming
Dreaming
Dreaming describes an enormous variety of spiritual beliefs and not a single unified systems; it refers to all that is known and understood by aboriginal. It is central spiritual concept, determines not only beliefs and values and religions with people and the environment
Aboriginals believe they are related to the natural world which provides advantages of life and survival in environment also imposes the responsibilities of preservations and education
Responsibilities include conservation of natural and social environments by providing laws and cultural mores and taboos to be followed and passed on by elders to next gens
Beliefs are imbedded in body of knowledge’s transmitted through storytelling
Story provides accounts of creation and explain the natural order of all living and non-living things
Everything in the world was established by creation ancestors
Human, plants, animals and landscape features were made perfectly by ancestral beings
All that was required of the human inhabitants was to listen, take care and continue to respect earthborn law handed down by the creation ancestors
Dreaming stories explain how to hunt and gather food, how the landscape evolved, how to make tools, where clady and ochres are found and how to use them in ceremonies
Dreaming stories explain the location and purpose of sacred places, connect a place with a particular creation ancestor and sets down what knowledge is secret and what she can be shared
Songs, art, stories and ceremonies brought the people closer to the creation ancestors by bringing them to life
Kinship
Unbreakable (inextricable) bond exists between aboriginal and their land
Skin names – show kinship and relationships (totem names “kangaroo man” these affect who one can marry, marriages are forbidden with a