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Exploring Global Religions: Traditions and Impacts

Learn about different kinds of religions, their teachings, and the impacts they have on societies and spaces. Discover the diffusion of religions, strength of beliefs, and historical contexts. Explore the architectural influences of various faiths on sacred spaces around the world. Delve into the intersection of culture, spirituality, and belief systems across diverse contexts.

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Exploring Global Religions: Traditions and Impacts

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  1. Culture: Religion

  2. Religion maps--perspectives • Definitions • Subgroups • resolution

  3. What is a religion? • Teachings that imply a value system • Include a notion of the sacred • Many have creation story

  4. Religions also may teach: • Law • Politics • Social mores • Sexual relations • Physical fitness • Cleanliness • Eating habits • decoration

  5. Kinds of religions? • Monotheistic v polytheistic • Global v ethnic (universal versus ethnic) • Shamanism • Animism • Hierarchical v autonomous • Fundamentalist • denomination

  6. Predominant religions • Christianity • Islam • Buddhism

  7. Why have some religions diffused so far from their hearths? • Local v universalist • Evangelism https://joshuaproject.net/religions/4 • Diffusion • Migration • Hierarchical • Contagion

  8. Religiosity/strength of belief

  9. Religiosity/strength of belief • Difference from congregations or membership in religion… • Are poor people more religious? • Does religious persecution lead to fundamentalism? • Does religious persecution lead to stronger beliefs? • Does the rise of fundamentalism lead to more atheism?

  10. Rise of fundamentalism

  11. Ethnic component • Hinduism • Judaism • Shintoism • Daoism

  12. Other Impacts on space … • Disposal of the dead • Houses of worship • Architecture • Christian—basilica, orthodoxy, Protestantism • Muslim—courtyard center, minaret, community not sacred space • Hindu temple—to house shrines since important functions at home temples, small center, space for processions, caretaker space? Pool for ritual baths? • Buddhist and shintoist pagodas—delicate and eleaborate, different # of tiers, relics, monastery, worship in adjacent temple • Bahai—seven houses to emphasize bahai’s universal appeal

  13. http://www.worldmapper.org/news.html • http://www.viewsoftheworld.net/?p=5535

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