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Label the following countries on the map above: Brazil Canada China England India Iran Iraq Israel Italy Japan Mexico Saudi Arabia United States Color in the region of the world where each religion is most dominant: http://www.mopsofwor.com/ind/history-of-religion.html Christianity Hinduism Shintoism Buddhism Judaism Islam
World Religions Vocabulary ~ Karma ~ Dharma ~ Varna ~ Moksha ~ Vedas ~ Siddartha Gautama ~ Buddha ~ 4 Noble Truths ~ 8-fold Path ~ Enlightenment ~ Nirvana ~ Torah ~ 10 Commandments ~ Bible ~ Jerusalem ~ Mecca ~ Ka'ba ~ Qur'an ~ S Pillars ~ Hajj
Biography Extravaganza!! *Write a brief biography for each of the major founders of the world's religions. Be sure to discuss the role that they played in helping their religion begin or grow. Ab... aham Uudaism) Siddhartha (lluddhism) Jesus Christ (Christianity) Muhammad (Islam)
By Tom O'Neill Photographs by William Albert Allard Discrimination against India's lowest Hindu castes is technically ijlegal. But try telling that to the 160 million Untouchables, who face violent reprisals if they forget their place. Get a taste of what awaits you in print from this compelling excerpt. The sins of Girdharilal Maurya are many, his attackers insisted. He has bad karma. Why else would he, like his ancestors, be born an Untouchable, if not to pay for his past lives? Look, he is a leatherworker, and Hindu law says that working with animal skins makes him unclean, someone to avoid and revile. And his unseemly prosperity is a sin. Who does this Untouchable think he is, buying a small plot of land outside the village? Then he dared speak up, to the police and other authorities, demanding to use the new village well. He got what Untouchables deserve. One night, while Maurya was away in a nearby city, eight men from the higher Rajput caste came to his farm. They broke his fences, stole his tractor, beat his wife and daughter, and burned down his house. The message was clear: Stay at the bottom where you belong. ****** To be born a Hindu in India is to enter the caste system, one of the world's longest surviving forms of social stratification. Embedded in Indian culture for the past 1,500 years, the caste system follows a basic precept: All men are created unequal. The ranks in Hindu society come from a legend in which the main groupings, or varnas, emerge from a primordial being. From the mouth come the Brahmans- the priests and teachers. From the arms come the Kshatriyas- the rulers and soldiers. From the thighs come the Vaisyas-merchants and traders. From the feet come the Sudras-Iaborers. Each varna in turn contains hundreds of hereditary castes and subcastes with their own pecking orders. A fifth group describes the people who are achuta, or untouchable. The primordial being does not claim them. Untouchables are outcasts- people considered too impure, too polluted, to rank as worthy beings. Prejudice defines their lives, particularly in the rural areas, where nearly three-quarters of India's people live. Untouchables are shunned, insulted, banned from temples and higher caste homes, made to eat and drink from separate utensils in public places, and, in extreme but not uncommon cases, are raped, burned, lynched, and gunned down. ******************************************Onthenextpage********************************************** Respond: Reflect on your reactions to this article. What does it make you think or feel? What are you left wondering? What questions do you now have? What will you take away from this article?
Name: Personal Response Choose one of the following topics and discuss it in detail. Use examples from your own life, the world, and anything else that seems relevant. You are entitled to have whatever opinion you choose, but you MUST be able to support that opinion with appropriate support. Why does mankind need religion? What do all religions have in common?
Name Religion DBQ Historical Context: All societies have some form of religion that has a impact on the way people behave. The following documents focus on some religions found in the world. Question: Discuss three of the world's religions. State their key beliefs and ways the religion affects their followers. Document to use in your DBQ essay Document I "Not by birth does one become an outcast, not by birth does one become a Brahmin. By deeds one becomes an outcast; by deeds one becomes a Brahmin." There are two ends not to be sought by a seeker of truth. The first is the pursuit of desires... and the second is the pursuit of hardship. The middle way avoids of these.. and leads to peace, insight, full wisdom, and nirvana". -Buddha I. What practice of the Hinduism religion is the Buddha criticizing? Document 2 God spoke, and these were his words:... You shall have no other god to set against me. You shall not make a carved image for yourself nor the likeness of anything in the heavens above... You shall not bow down to them... You shall not make wrong use of the name of the Lord your God... Remember to keep the Sabbath day holy". -The New English Bible 2. What is a fundamental belief of Judaism referred to in the above statement? Document 3 What is the Middle Way?... It is the Noble Eightfold Path-Right Views, Right Resolve, Right Speech, Right Conduct, Right Livelihood, Right Effort, Right Mindfulness, and Right Concentration. This is the middle way." - Buddha 3. What is the purpose of the "middle way"? Document 4 If the life has been good, the soul may move up to the level of a holy man: if it has been evil, it may sink to the level of a dog or an insect." -Keyes Beech 4. What does the quote reveal about an "afterlife"? Which religions would this quote apply to?