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Religion and Society Unit 1 - 2014

Religion and Society Unit 1 - 2014. Dear Lord,

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Religion and Society Unit 1 - 2014

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  1. Religion and Society Unit 1 - 2014

  2. Dear Lord, Help us help each other this year. Grant us your Spirit so that we can speak honestly and with considered opinions. Enable us to learn more about you and understand how your presence in the world can lead all to truth and love for you and others. Amen Prayer

  3. Welcome • My Role • To help you • To plan the journey for you • To motivate you • To hold you accountable • To praise your good work • To give you honest feedback • Not My Role • To spoon feed you’ • To give you all of the answers • To know everything • To harass you • To argue with you • To chase you for work • To change your opinions Welcome

  4. Who are you?

  5. Welcome to Weebly • 5 minutes to surf the site • Documents • Lyrics • Study Guide • Timeline The Religious World

  6. David Garibaldi Religion - Iconic

  7. Define religion in your book – based on your reading completed as homework • Questions - pg 5 + extension • Surf Weebly– Quiz What Is Religion?

  8. Pg 7 • What is it saying? • Why does it speak to you? • Guide questions pg 9 (Activity 1.4) • Homework – pg 8 (Activity 1.2: Question1 & 2) Defining Religion

  9. Why is there religion? • What evidence is there of progression of religious thought throughout human history? • What eight aspects are common to all religions? Todays Big Questions

  10. To give answers to the big questions. • To give meaning and purpose to life. • Explain human existence in the universe. • A cultural norm. Why Religion?

  11. Read – 12-31 • Read 29 – Group activity 1.16 Individual Work • Answer – • Activity 1.9 Q1-4 & 6 • Activity 1.12 Q 1 & 2 • Glossary - Five terms Work to complete

  12. Why is there religion? • What evidence is there of progression of religious thought throughout human history? • What eight aspects are common to all religions? Todays Big Questions - Review

  13. Religious development over time. • What eight aspects are common to all religions? • What examples can you give for each? Todays Big Questions - Review

  14. Activity 1.9 Q1-4 & 6 • Q1 – Mercy • Q2 – life and death • Q4 - ? • Q6 - illustrate or clarify by giving an example (Goat – “everything that lives fear to die”) • Activity 1.12 Q 1 & 2 • Q1 suggestions • Q2 suggestions • Glossary - Five terms Homework

  15. Four Groups • Heading - Religious Development Over Time • Oldest at the top of the page – 1.77 million years ago • Most recent at the bottom of the page – 5400 years ago • Ten minutes Religious Development Over Time - Activity

  16. Beliefs • Myths and Other Stories • Sacred Texts and Religious Writings • Rituals • Symbols • Social Structures • Ethical Principles or written codes of behaviour • Religious Experience and Spirituality http://8aspects.weebly.com/index.html - complete summay/glossary in workbook 8 Aspects of All Religions

  17. Religious development over time. • What eight aspects are common to all religions? • What examples can you give for each? Todays Big Questions - Review

  18. What is Religious Truth? • Purpose of religion. • History of Christianity. Todays Big Questions

  19. http://www.mapsofwar.com/ind/history-of-religion.html • Summaries pg 15-16: What is Religious Truth? • Q1-3: pg 17 • Page 30: Q5 &6 Consolidation

  20. Development of Religion – Focus on Christianity • What does it mean today? All Together

  21. What is Religious Truth? • Purpose of religion. • History of Christianity. Todays Big Questions - Review

  22. The Eight Aspects of All Religions Todays Big Questions

  23. Summaries the eight aspects of all religions (pg32-37) • Subheadings as found in textbook Homework

  24. Common to the majority of religions • Examples of each aspect may be shared by some religions or completely different • God (Christianity) – Allah (Islam) • New Testament (Christian) – Indigenous Oral Tradition and Rock Art Eight Aspects of All Religions

  25. Without standard beliefs a religion would fail. • Recorded in a written format. • Creeds • Gives a religion it’s identity. Beliefs

  26. Transmit knowledge by believed truth. • Tell of the origin of humans and the universe and reveal the nature of the Ultimate Reality. • Give guidance about life. Myths and Other Stories

  27. Compilations of written literature in which essential parts of religious tradition are recorded. • Can be many formats. • Scrolls, books, songs, rock art, body decoration etc Sacred Texts and Other Writings

  28. Prescribed actions that have a symbolic meaning, considered to be sacred. • Often used as rites of passage. • Fundamental to the spiritual development of the believer. Rituals

  29. Represent something else. • Used to represent something immaterial or sacred. • Can be held as sacred. Symbols

  30. Often placing the religious at the top of the social hierarchy. • Often many layers, more religious/experienced at the top. Social Structures

  31. Ethics is the study of decision making. • Include common goals or ideals that each religion seeks to achieve. • These principals have come about through the revelation of the Ultimate Reality. • Can be a discrepancy between what is written and what an individual does. Ethical Principals or Written Codes of Behaviour

  32. May occur in a religious or non-religious context. • Structured religious experiences are designed to engender spirituality (sacraments). • Not all religious experiences are considered authentic. • Religious identity is the sum total of a persons religious and spiritual experiences, their comprehension of them and their psychological state. Religious Experience and Spirituality

  33. Comparison – DUE 25/2

  34. SAC 1 – Aspects of Religious Tradition – Comparision Todays Big Questions

  35. H/W REMINDER Comparison – DUE 25/2

  36. Allocate Jobs – One aspect each – also one person as a group manager. • Research: • Text book • Weebly • Internet • Collate Information • Synthesis • Create PowerPoint • Develop oral presentation. SAC Organisation

  37. SAC 1

  38. SAC 1 – Aspects of Religious Tradition – Comparision Todays Big Questions

  39. Religion – The Good and Bad • SAC Completion Todays Big Questions

  40. Many good and noble things happen and have happened in the name of religion. • Many bad and horrible things happen and have happened in the name of religion. • Examples: ? Good and Bad - Religion

  41. Religion - Good

  42. Religion? – Evil?

  43. III. TO CHOOSE IN ACCORD WITH CONSCIENCE • 1787Man is sometimes confronted by situations that make moral judgments less assured and decision difficult. But he must always seriously seek what is right and good and discern the will of God expressed in divine law. • 1789Some rules apply in every case: - One may never do evil so that good may result from it; - the Golden Rule: "Whatever you wish that men would do to you, do so to them."56 • charity always proceeds by way of respect for one's neighbor and his conscience: "Thus sinning against your brethren and wounding their conscience . . . you sin against Christ."57 Therefore "it is right not to . . . do anything that makes your brother stumble."58 Catholic Catechism

  44. All evil done in the name of religion is wrong. • Every religion has examples of evil committed in the name of it. • All of these examples are driven by people who use the religion to achieve their own ambition for power, authority, wealth or self satisfaction • No religion promotes that good can come from an evil/corrupt action. • Complete question 1, page 41 (Activity 1.20)

  45. Religion – The Good and Bad • SAC Completion Todays Big Questions - Review

  46. Cults Todays Big Questions

  47. Cults

  48. Often based on a religion. • Have a charismatic leader. • Often apocolyptic. • Revolve around: • Control – thinking and access to outside world • Money – members allowed little if any money • Sex – often use the “religion” to justify evil behaviour. Cults

  49. The Unification Church – America • Rajneeshpuram – India • Children of God (Family International) – America/Global • Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God (MRTCG) – Uganda • AumShinrikyo – Japan • Order of The Solar Temple – Europe • Branch Davidians – America • Heavens Gate – America • Manson Family – America • The Peoples Temple – Guyana Cults - examples

  50. Cults Todays Big Questions - Review

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