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Religion. Geog 101. Major categories of religions:. Universalizing-60% Ethnic-18% Traditional/Tribal-6% ( Animism/Shamanism) 12% Afr. pop. Roman Pantheon. Chi-Ro. Syncretism. Muhammad preaching at Mecca 610 AD-revelation. Mecca during the Hajj. Muslim/yellow-50%+ green-predominant.
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Religion Geog 101
Major categories of religions: • Universalizing-60% • Ethnic-18% • Traditional/Tribal-6% (Animism/Shamanism) 12% Afr. pop
"There are these two extremes that are not to be indulged in by one who has gone forth. Which two? That which is devoted to sensual pleasure: base, vulgar, common, unprofitable; and that which is devoted to self-affliction: painful, ignoble, unprofitable. Avoiding both of these extremes, the middle way — producing vision, producing knowledge — leads to calm, to direct knowledge, to self-awakening.” ."
The Four Noble Truths • There is suffering in life from birth to death • The cause of suffering is desire—release from desire will bring an end to reincarnation cycle • The ending of suffering is the ending of desire • The end of suffering occurs with the following of the Eightfold Path
Ashoka: "What have I done? Is this a victory, what's a defeat then! This is justice or injustice! It's gallantry or a rout? Is it a valor to kill innocent children and women? Someone has lost her husband, someone a father, someone a child, someone an unborn infant... what's this debris of the corpses? Are these marks of victory or defeat? Are these vultures, crows, eagles the messengers of death or evil? What have I done! What have I done" The brutality of the conquest led him to adopt Buddhism and he used his position to propagate the relatively new religion to new heights, as far as ancient Rome and Egypt. He made Vibhajyavada Buddhism his state religion around 260 BC.
Religious territorial conflict • Extremism w/in a religion • Sect vs. Sect • Religion vs. State • Religion vs. Religion • Reform within Religion (Hinduism)
From the age of eight, women were not allowed to be in direct contact with men, other than a close blood relative, husband, or in-law.[10] Other restrictions were: • Women should not appear in the streets without a blood relative or without wearing a Burqa. • Women should not wear high-heeled shoes. • Women must not speak loudly.[11] • All ground and first floor residential windows should be painted over or screened to prevent women being visible from the street. • The photographing or filming of women was banned as was displaying pictures of females in newspapers, books, shops or the home. • Women were forbidden to appear on the balconies of their apartments or houses. • Ban on women's presence on radio, television or at public gatherings of any kind.[12]
This year's Miss World contest which sparked bloody clashes in host nation Nigeria will now be moved to London, the organisers have said. The show will be held in London on 7 December instead of the Nigerian capital, Abuja, officials announced late on Friday. The decision came after more than 100 people died and hundreds more were injured in violent protests in the Nigerian city of Kaduna this week. In a statement, the organisers said the change of venue was in the "overall interests of Nigeria and the contestants". Muslim groups in Nigeria believe the contest is immoral and degrading to women and are angry that preliminary events began during the holy month of Ramadan.
