Describe some of the problems in today's world that seem to be involved with religion and some ways religion can help inter-group and international understanding

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1. Describe some of the problems in today's world that seem to be involved with religion and some ways religion can help inter-group and international understanding.

2. Present the main features of hunter-gatherer religions, the worldview that lies behind them, and how that worldview is reflected in their culture and religion.

3. Explain what impact agriculture had on ancient societies, making note of the social changes caused by the rise of agriculture and how these new developments influenced "new" culture and religious expressions.

4. Summarize the main periods in the history of human religion with an understanding of the importance of the Axial Age.

5. Discuss some of the issues raised in modern day society and how religion has responded to them.

Key words and terms: For this section, reveal an understanding of at least seven of the following words and terms in your response: legitimization, disenchantment, functional, formal, substantive, Axial Age, inter-subjective, culture, society, myth, ritual, ultimate power, cosmological, transcendental, anthropological, community, neutrality, cosmological, totem, egalitarian, shaman(s), animism, pre-literate, literacy, “Patriarchal Revolution,” mana, initiations, primal, archaic, urbanization, myth, ritual, individuation, ultimate power, legitimization, literacy, urbanization, social hierarchy, ancestors/ancestral spirits.

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Choose one of the following questions from A, B, or C

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A. How would you describe the meaning of the word spirituality in terms if your own reflections upon human life and your own personal history?

B. What do you think is the relationship between spirituality and the fully human life?

C. What characteristics would you expect to discover if you encountered a person of profound spirituality? Are you aware of any person who represents these characteristics either personally or other awareness.


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1. How Hinduism followers prefer to call their religion which means the “eternal” way. 2.It evolved from different religious traditions and different ethnic groups in the area around the Indus river in India and Pakistan 3. Third largest 4. The nature gods: Indra, god of weather Agni, god of derive fire 5.No, they worship: Brahma, the creator Vishnu, the preserver Shiva, the destroyer 6.A belief that some of their gods appear on earth taking a form of humans. 7.They believe that last avatars that appeared on earth are Rama, Krishna and Buddha 8. The story of the life of Krishna 9. The vedas and Upanishads 10. The vedas: Knowledge Upanishads: Sitting down near (in order to receive instructions from someone who has the knowledge) 11.An epic tail of two war infections on a family and the struggle to rule an Asian kingdom 12.Dharma is the natural law that gives harmony and balance to the universe. 13.Every time when someone dies his soul is sent to enter newly born body. (To be made flesh again) 14.It’s if the soul is sent from a body to another by reincarnation it happens again and again until it’s liberated, and this called moksha. 15.The sum of your actions in previous states, will appear in your life again or happen again in your life which impacts a lot of Hindus way of living. 16. Is a journey of millions of Hindus to city called Varanasi which is said to be founded by one of their Lords. They go and pray and take a bath in the river which is believed to purify their souls. 17. A city located in India, where millions of people visit every year for pilgrimage, it’s said that it was founded by Lord Shiva. 18. Aum 19.A way of worship, as a part of their journey to attain moksha 20. Bakhti Yoga, what conceived by Kishna and documented in Bahgavad Vita Karma Yoga, path of right action 21.Mandir is the temple or house for worship in Hinduism, where they go to pray and take some offerings for god. 22. Most Hindus are vegetarians because they think it’s wrong to kill animals to eat them, especially cows which considered as holy thing for them 23.One of the Hindus gods, whis is known to be sitting on a tiger’s back and fights evil spirits 24. Diwali :Celebrating the Hindu New Year and triumph of good over evil and light over darkness. Celebrated by millions of people around the globe and lasts for 5 days. Holi:Festival where all people throw colored powder over each other, this custom goes back to Krishna who threw colored powder over Radha and her friends. 25.Since Hinduism wasn’t founded as religion in the beginnings, it has no single founder can be mentioned. It is a culture that flourished in India and later became a form of religion form of religion.
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Question 5
Some of the issues that have raised in our modern day society include; social hierarchy,
materialism, violence in school, alcohol and drug abuse, and shifting economy among others.
Social hierarchy is a social organization fundamental aspect that is obtained by display behavior
and fighting, leading to the ranking of people and animals. In the modern day, the rich and the
poor in the society do not match together. Religion has however addressed this issues by
ensuring that people attend to their services and serve one God to make them equal before their
God. People then become equal under the eyes of one God. This has then reduced social
hierarchy to some level to point of the rich helping the poor in their religious groups.
Materialism ...


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