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Abrahamic religions |
Islam, Christianity, judaism |
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What was Abraham told to do by God? |
Form a covenant with God, told to bring his people (Habiru) 550 miles to Canaan - promise land (now Israel) If you obey me I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars
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Story of Abraham & Sarah |
She cannot have kids, he has relations with the maid, Hagar, gives birth to Ishmael Sarah then has Isaac, Sarah wants the line to go through Isaac |
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What is the line that goes through Ishmael? |
Islam - beginning of islamic faith |
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Isaac's line is? |
judaism |
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Jesus speaks of God Abraham causing what? |
after jesus died, new form of judaism, so radical it becomes christianity |
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Abrahamic religions are called? |
Reveal religions |
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Diaspora |
jewish people scattered and lost holy land 70 AD land conquered and people dispersed, romans dispersed them through Europe |
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Why does Israel get land back? |
world turned back on judaism, UN guilty for abandoning them during the Holocaust |
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What did the Jews feel about the land they got back? |
felt getting their land back was their Messiah, felt got gave it to them, the country began in 1947 |
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Christianity |
teachings of jesus, began in Nazareth, from jerusalem, jesus accused of sedition & executed b/c he said he was king Faith in Jesus, Faith in Trinity, Faith in Resurrection |
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Main divisions of Christianity |
Catholic Protestantism Orthodoxy |
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Catholic church |
headed by Pope in Rome, 23 divisions |
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protestantism |
16th century, protestant reformation, lutheranism |
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Orthodoxy |
eastern church & western church, peaceful coexistence, how they viewed pope was very different |
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East |
called itself Orthodox (the right way to do something, right practice), mystical (observational), bishops are all equal including pope |
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West |
decided to call itself Catholic (universal), participatory, bishops are equal but pope is higher |
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East and west separation caused a what? |
a schism creating Orthodox, Catholic and protestant church after martin luther leaves |
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islam |
Saudi Arabia, was pagan, polytheistic |
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Profit Muhammad |
received revelation (recitation) b/c recite word for word from God ( Quaran ) He was illiterate, recited what he heard and someone else wrote, Muhammad was not divine, viewing him as divine is heresy |
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Quaran |
certain people have to be authorized to write it, in english and in arabic, it is sacred (cannot be changed), view Quaran like Christians view jesus, *bible is not sacred which is why it can be changed unlike the quaran* |
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2 types of Islam |
Shia Sunni There is also sufi- meaning spiritual |
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Bahai |
19th century, sprung from Islam, teaches unity of religious prophets and accepts all |
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Latter Day saints |
believe in different tiers of heaven, revelation of Joseph Smith Mormons in Salt Lake City when he was lynched - all ostracized |
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Jehovah's witnesses |
do not believe in trinity, baptize in name of Jehovah, communion only on good friday |
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Jainism |
extreme form of hinduism, focus is total nonviolence & total detachment Jains are vegans (most)
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buddhism |
protest move against hinduism, objected to caste system in hinduism, follow 8 Fold Path |
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Sikhism |
5th largest religion in the world, 20 mill followers, believe in reincarnation but 1 God, all stem from common root but express differently |
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Oriental religions |
Confucianism - 500 B.C., based on society, what is best, people would learn to respect each other in society than the world would change, he was teaching, not really a religion |
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Shinto |
(Japanese) the way of the gods, everything a person does is to please the gods indigenous to the country, (must be Japanese)
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Magic |
manipulation praying with conditions on God |
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mythology |
a myth is not factual but true, truth is the underlying meaning, a myth has a point which is a truth, there is truth but not necessarily facts |
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divination |
telling the future, ex) dice, throwing twigs, dissect animals skill a religious person possesses |
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taboos |
something you're not supposed to do based off religion |
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sacrifice |
means sacred work, to make something sacred, kosher - killed in a holy sacred way |
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Aknaton |
1300 BCE Egyptian, first believer in monotheism believed in the sun god |
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Concept of evil and satan |
evil is tempting, Satan does not cause, he tempts |
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purgatory |
step on path to heaven, longer path to heaven, must be cleansed |
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Why did the Iriquois religion survive? |
integration with settlers went smooth b/c religion so similar |
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azandi |
good or bad conscience bidding of god or devil whether you give in to temptation |
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litergy |
work of the people, each deity is worshipped a specific day |
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patronage |
deity specific to occupation or specific type of people |
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bumuntu |
general personhood, compassion, embracing the good - God is creator of all life, molder of first man and woman, use clay
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What date was the lottery? |
June 27 |
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Hinduism |
3rd largest religion in the world, 14% of people, predominantly in India, indigenous religion |
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What forms the basis of Hindu belief? |
Vedas, from four writings of vedas, older than judaism |
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Rig Veda |
like bible to christianity |
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upanishads |
later writings of vedas, progressive as writings of hinduism move on |
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ultimate reality |
Brahman is closest thing they have to god, but it is a spirit |
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Akman means ? |
soul with is the core of our body |
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avatars |
more manifestations than gods of deity |
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3 Main Gods of Hinduism |
Brahma Vishnu Shiba
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Brahma |
creator |
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Vishnu |
preserver |
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shiba |
destroyer |
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Vishnu has how many avatars? |
10, all gods/manifestations/deity of portraying the brahman or the ultimate reality |
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Hindu karma |
implies strict fatalism, must live out fate, can't change it, better you are, better future will be |
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Hindu caste system |
Varna 4 varnas, thousands of subvarnas 1. Brahmins - priestly class (born into it) 2. warriors - soldiers 3. merchants - store workers 4. shudras - laborers then there is the untouchables which are given the worst jobs possible which Ghandi objected to |
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chief aim of hinduism |
to release yourself from the samsara wheel to achieve moksha |
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4 main goals of hinduism |
Kama - pleasure, enjoyment Artha - wealth, success Dharma - moral duty Moksha - release of cycle of lives into nirvana to become one with Brahman |
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3 main types of yoga to join with the divine |
Karma Jnana Bhatia |
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Karma yoga |
fulfilling ones social duties (good things) |
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Jnana yoga |
knowledge achieved through meditation |
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bhatia yoga |
devotion to gods/deity |
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4 stages of life |
Student - learn up until 18/21 Householder - career/family (20-60) Forest Dweller - achieve/give off wisdom Sannyansan - detachment - leaving the world |
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River ganges |
water plays a great role, wash clothes, take baths, cremation, ganges is a sacred river |
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cow means? |
fertility |
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vishnu has 2 main avatars, which one is closest to god? |
Krishna |
