Essay Questions (4 points each): (1) In chapter 2‚ the textbook author uses various terms for “indigenous religions”: traditional‚ aboriginal‚ indigenous‚ tribal‚ nonliterate‚ primal‚ native‚ oral‚ and basic. Select four or five of these terms and discuss why you believe each of those terms is applicable to the religions covered in this chapter. (2) Why do so many indigenous religions have such a reverence for nature? Indigenous religions have such a reverence for nature because they have
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traditions which produce the noteworthy similarities in practice. It is my hope that this discussion will strengthen the belief and practice of both Buddhist and Catholic readers since both will here be confronted by the fact that practitioners of another religion agree with them about how humans should behave and
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Monotheistic Religions In what ways is the Holy Land an important site for all three monotheistic faiths? Jerusalem is a home to holy sites that are sacred to the three religions. The city contains many houses of worship. It is also a place of ongoing tensions between religious and ethnic groups. The three major monotheistic religions are sometimes described as branches of the same family tree. If this is true‚ how would you describe the trunk of the tree? All three major monotheistic religions claim
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Religion has played a major role in our country since the beginning. Our Founding Fathers were very devout Christians. This country was set up with the intent of having our religous freedom secured. They passed laws that created a separation of church and state. However‚ in recent years this separation has began to deminish. Our government should stand and protect the rights our Founding Fathers instilled in this country. Even though we have this separation‚ there have been debates for decades calling
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Essay one “Theoretical ideas” lead to a better understanding in four main ways: through definition‚ description‚ explanation and prediction. These are the four main part of the “theory”. Definition mean universal in general. It will fits most characters. Definition will carry with them a lot of choices about what is important‚ what kind of things that is worth to studying‚ and which is not worth to study. It give us the function of judgments to know what should we do with them. However‚ description
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completely accurate‚ it is mostly biased or one sided‚ just like religion. With this being said one of the main factors in government that causes so much conflict and collision is religion. This is because religion is a worldwide phenomenon that can lead to both conflict and peace‚ depending on the way one looks upon it. Although in some cases religion may cause strife between countries‚ the reality of it is that without religion correlating with state affairs at all‚ the government would simply
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Essay Question: Hinduism has so many broad expressions; I wonder how Westerners can use this to reflect on their own religious traditions. It has been my experience that Westerners to believe that their faiths are more uniform and less subject to change. Is this accurate? Why or why not? I do not feel that this is an accurate statement‚ especially in the United States. We are such a young country we don’t have the concept of tradition and antiquity that exists in the Eastern cultures. We think
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religious tradition called syncretism. It is my opinion that all religions are created from the same foundation then somehow changed to fit the needs of a particular culture or philosophy. I feel that religion has lost its integrity and validity. Judaism‚ Christianity‚ and Islam all stem from the same origin. Nonetheless these three religions vary claiming that its religion is the true religion and all others are false. This essay will explain the meaning syncretism; link Christianity‚ Islam‚ and
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Religion in "A Farewell to Arms" For hundreds of years‚ writers have used religion as a principle issue and point of discussion in their novels. Hawthorne expressed his views in The Scarlet Letter‚ Garcia Marquez did the same in One Hundred Years of Solitude and in other writings‚ and even Ernest Hemingway used his writing to develop his own ideas concerning the church. This is fully evident in his novel A Farewell to Arms. Even in a book in which the large majority of the characters profess their
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Religion has always played a major role in human society. From Hinduism‚ Buddhism‚ Confucianism and Daoism‚ these 4 religions have something in common. They all tell a person how to live and make an ordered society. Confucianism is a Chinese religion based off of a famous philosopher-teacher named Confucius. He had taught that harmony resulted when people accepted their place in society. Throughout this essay expressions of Indian and Chinese religion and how they’re ordered societies had been
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