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RELIGIONChapter 7
Bellringer Question (answer in your notebook):
•What religion do you/your family practice? •How important is religion to your identity?
• Religion: “A system of beliefs and practices that attempts to order life in terms of culturally perceived ultimate priorities”
-- Stoddard and Prorak
• How people “should” behave
What Is Religion?
Types of Religion• Monotheistic religions: Worship a single
deity• Polytheistic religions: Worship more
than one deity, even thousands• Animistic religions: Belief that inanimate
objects posses spirits and should be revered
Buddhist stupas in Indonesia
In Japan, Buddhism has mixedwith Shinto, which originated in Japan. A Shinto shrine inKyoto
From the Hearth of the Eastern Mediterranean
• Judaism– Zionism
• Christianity • 1054: Split into Eastern Orthodox &
Roman Catholic• 1400s–1500s: Protestants
• Islam – Divisions: Shortly after Muhammad’s death
• Sunni Muslims (great majority)• Shi’ite Muslims (concentrated in Iran)
Divisions in Christianity
First division (1054)Western Roman Empire: Roman CatholicEastern Roman Empire: Orthodox
Secularism• Indifference to or
rejection of organized religious affiliations and ideas
• The case of the Soviet Union– Had an official policy
of atheism
Sacred Landscapes of Christianity
Catholic churches are often located in the center of
European cities, with spires reaching far above other
buildings.
Israel and Palestine
• British mandate of Palestine
• Partition of Palestine by United Nations– Israeli state– Palestinian state
• 1967: Israeli control over West Bank, Gaza
• 2005: Withdrawal from Gaza
• Control over movement
• Multitude of interfaith boundaries
The Horn of Africa
• Amharic (Coptic) Christianity in central Ethiopia
•Islam in the Horn of Africa by diffusion
Religious Fundamentalism and Extremism
– A return to the basics of a faith• Protestantism
– Literal interpretation of the Bible– Opposition to abortion & gay marriage
• Islam– Shari’a Law– Taliban– Jihad