Description
A world view is a fundamental or basic orientation of thinking – like a mindset – which guides a culture and / or a person’s life. Like a point of view, it can be built of concepts, ideas, values, emotions, and ethics. "Weltanschauung" is the German word for this idea. Your goal for this course is to understand the world views of these various religions. In order to prepare you for your final assignment, you will outline the world views of various religions in the chart below, adding to it each week.
For this assignment, students will complete the weekly area of the chart, filling in the aspects of each religion as it is presented in the readings and resources. This chart, when complete, will be the starting point for the written assignment, due in Week 10.
For each weekly submission:
- Review the weekly lectures and supplemental materials provided, then complete the chart by elaborating on each section related to the weekly content.
- Identify key details and examples from the weekly resources to serve as a basis for the content being recorded in your chart.
- Write clearly and coherently using correct grammar, punctuation, spelling, and mechanics.
The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:
- Analyze what is meant by religion.
- Analyze the similarities and differences in the primary beliefs held by major religious traditions and the cultures in which these religions evolved.
- Describe the varieties of religious experience and practice in a wide range of cultures.
- Recognize how daily life within various religions and current affairs are influenced by religion.
- Use technology and information resources to research issues in religion.
- Write clearly and concisely about world religions using proper writing mechanics.
Explanation & Answer
Attached.
REL212 WORLD VIEW CHART
This chart contains all the research you need to write the final paper for this course. If you do the research and reading on the religion(s) we study each
week, and if you give yourself a good guide to the religions using this chart, you will have a good foundation for that final paper. The more information you
provide for yourself with this chart, the easier it will be to write your final paper. Do not forget to provide adequate material for any in-text citations and be
sure to include a reference page as well. On the left hand side of the chart are the categories and the content to be discussed.
Complete and submit the following chart. Provide citations for any source(s) you used to explain or provide examples for in your research. List in APA Style
full references for any in-text citations and source(s) made in the above chart. Use full sentences and correct grammar, etc..
Student Name:
RELIGION(S) OF THE WEEK
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State the name of the Religion being addressed in this chart.
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Please address ONLY ONE (1) religion per chart. If there is more than one
Provide your response in this column.
Islam
religion for the week, do two charts.
ORIGIN OF ALL THINGS
Provide your response in this column.
Every religion has a cosmology/cosmogony to explain its view of the universe and
Islam believes that Jesus was a messenger of God; therefore the
the place of humans in it. Explain the cosmology/cosmogony for this week’s
creation story is told in the Old Testament and the Hebrew Scriptures
religion. Explain how it is manifested in the subsequent worldview that develops
directly correlate to that taught in Islam.
for that religion.
God created Eve as an offshoot of Adam and placed them in a garden
paradise. While living in paradise, Eve was tempted by a serpent who
promised her wisdom if she would only eat a forbidden fruit from the
tree of knowledge against God’s will. (The serpent is commonly
interpreted as a manifestation of Satan.) Eve gave into the temptation,
and she and Adam ate the forbidden fruit, thus ending their innocence
and banishing them from the garden (Fisher, 2011, p.242).
Islam traces its ancestry back to Abraham, who was said to have two
sons, Isma’il, and Isaac. Isma’il’s mother was Hagar a slave and
Isaac’s mother was Sarah, the wife of Abraham. When Isaac was born,
it is believed that Sarah banished Isma’il and his mother. Abraham
took Hagar and their son to Mecca, and once there the Qur’an teaches
that Abraham and Isma’il built the holiest sanctuary in Islam, the
Ka’bah. God told Abraham that Ka’bah should be a place of
pilgrimage. While Muslims believe in a God, Allah, they also believe
that God had sent a messenger to tell his story, just like Moses in
Judaism or Jesus in Christianity, Muslims believes that Muhammad is
the messenger for the Islam religion. Although Muhammad is not to
be worshiped, his sto...