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- It raises challenges and possibilities related to religion, noting views that religious rituals foster cooperation, that communities provide "moral exoskeletons," and that
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2. Your questions
• What are religious and
cultural beliefs
• Different religions and
beliefs
• How to deal with different
faiths
• Personal journey
• Religion, community and
conflict
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3. Ancient folk religion?
• God is a Supreme Being
• It controls the world, crops and
fertility
• God can get angry, and can destroy
crops and food
• In order to make god happy with you,
you must create a scapegoat:
• Offer a sacrifice to appease the angry
god
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4. Fictional gods
• Gandalf
• An angry judge
• An imaginary friend
• An old man in the sky
• Pixies at the end of the garden
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5. Modern folk religion (MTD)
• A god exists who created and ordered the
world and watches over (but doesn’t interfere
in) human life on earth.
• God wants people to be good, nice, and fair to
each other, as taught in the Bible and by most
world religions.
• The central goal of life is to be happy and to
feel good about oneself.
• God does not need to be particularly involved
in one's life except when God is needed to
resolve a problem.
• Good people go to heaven when they die.
Smith, Christian; Lundquist Denton, Melina (2005). Soul Searching : The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American
Teenagers: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers. Oxford University Press.
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6. God and Faith
• God is not a thing, in this universe
• God created space and time
• God is unknowable in space and time
• We cannot think outside space and time
• God sustains its creation, all the time
• God is intimately involved in creation – and in
particular through Jesus (for Christians)
• God is Love, and does not need a scapegoat
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7. Belief, faith, spirituality or religion?
• Belief- we all believe in something, but it
doesn’t always have to be a God (atheist).
– We might believe in science or randomness, as an
explanation of why we are here- but it is still a
belief
• We might not be sure, or need more proof, of
haven’t thought of it (agnostic)
• We believe that there is a God (a theist)
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8. Spirituality
• animating or vital principle in man and animals
• Essentially a personal experience, as opposed to
a group
• Natural: deriving from nature and the beauty of
human experience
• Esoteric: peak experiences, methods of getting ‘in
touch with’ God
• Observances: Judaism knows a variety of religious
observances: ethical rules, prayers, religious
clothing, holidays, shabbat, pilgrimages, Torah
reading, dietary laws
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9. Belief
• a point of view or ‘une conviction’ must ‘attain a
certain level of cogency, seriousness, cohesion
and importance, be worthy of respect in a
democratic society and … not incompatible with
human dignity’.
• Equality Act 2006
– cogent
– serious
– cohesive
– compatible with human dignity.
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10. Religion
• A group experience. Emile Durkheim -"something
eminently social"
• A collection of individual spiritual experiences
• Marked by symbols of the common experience: texts,
practices, places, rituals, histories, festivals, ‘special’ or
holy people, like clergy, shamans etc
• Ritual = Repetition of common experiences over time-
ritual
• Holy = things set apart
• A group narrative, requires ‘insiders’ and ‘outsiders’
Durkheim, E. (1915) The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life. London: George Allen & Unwin,
p.10.
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11. Supreme Court case: Hodkin v
Registrar 2013
• Lord Toulson’s description of religion has four
elements:
• religion is a spiritual or non-secular belief system
• adherents to the belief system form a group
• the belief system claims to explain mankind’s
place in the universe and relationship with the
infinite
• there is a code of behaviour consistent with the
belief system
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16. Animism
Animism is the belief that all living
and nonliving things in nature have a
spirit.
Animism describes the belief systems
of many early civilizations.
Animism in early civilizations was
often combined with ancestor
worship.
16By necessity, all of the following descriptions are incorrect because they leave out important detail
17. Hinduism has no single
founder, but originated from
the mixing of Harappan and
Aryan cultures in ancient
India around 1500 BCE.
Hindus believe in one
unifying spirit, Brahman.
Brahman can manifest in
many, polytheistic, forms
or in one, monotheistic.
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18. Hinduism is based on the
concept of reincarnation
(Spirits return to earth
many times in different
forms trying to become
one with Brahman). The
soul moves up or down a
hierarchy depending on
their behavior in life.
A person moves closer to
Brahman by obeying the
law of karma. Karma is the
sum of all your deeds,
good and bad. Good
deeds involve following
your dharma, or duties
dependent on your
position, gender and
occupation.
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19. The caste system separated Indian society into
distinct social classes in which everyone knew
their place and believed that if they followed the
dharma of their caste, they would be reincarnated
into a better caste.
Brahmin
Kshatriya
Vaisya
Sudra
Untouchables
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20. Over the centuries Hindu
beliefs were recorded into a
number of sacred texts
including the Vedas and the
Upanishads.
The Ramayana is a
Hindu creation story.
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21. • Buddhism was
founded by Siddhartha
Gautama in northern
India around 560 BCE.
• Gautama was born into
a wealthy Hindu family,
but renounced his
wealth to seek spiritual
enlightenment.
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23. Buddhism is based on the Four Noble Truths.
1. All life is
suffering.
2. Suffering is
caused by desire for
things that are
illusions.
3. The way to
eliminate suffering
is to eliminate
desire.
4. Following the
Eightfold path will
help people to
overcome desire.
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25. Judaism originated in the Middle East around
1000 BCE. According to Jewish tradition, God
chose the Hebrews and helped them to escape
slavery in Egypt. Judaism was one of the first
monotheistic religions.
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26. ~The Torah is a sacred scripture recording
laws and events in Jewish history.
~The Old Testament of the Bible includes
the Torah. 26
27. ~God gave Hebrews
the 10
Commandments
through Moses.
~The Ten
Commandments
describe how people
should behave
toward God and one
another.
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28. Christianity originated from Judaism
about 30 CE.
Christians believe that Jesus was the
Messiah, or saviour sent by God to
bring eternal life to anyone who would
follow him.
Jesus accepted, but went beyond, the
Ten Commandments.
The sacred text of Christianity is the
Bible.
Although the Romans originally felt
threatened by the Christians, and
therefore allowed Jesus to be
crucified, Christianity eventually
became the official religion of the
Roman Empire.
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29. Islam originated in
the Middle East
around 622 CE with
the Prophet,
Muhammad.
Muhammad was
born in Mecca and
traveled to Medina
in a journey called
the hijra, that
became the
founding of Islam.
Muslim worshippers
follow scriptures called
the Quran, or Koran.
The collection of Islamic
laws is also known as
the Sharia.
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30. Five Pillars of Islam1. Faith in one God, Allah—monotheism
2. Five times daily prayer toward Mecca
3. Help for the poor
4. Fasting during the holy month of
Ramadan
5. Pilgrimage to holy city of Mecca
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31. Challenges and possibilities of religion
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“The very ritual practices that the New
Atheists dismiss as costly, inefficient and
irrational turn out to be a solution to one of
the hardest problems humans face:
cooperation without kinship”
“Religions are moral exoskeletons. If you live in
a religious community, you are enmeshed in a
set of norms, relationships, and institutions
that work primarily on the elephant to
influence your behavior. But if you are an
atheist living in a looser community with a less
binding moral matrix, you might have to rely
somewhat more on an internal moral
compass”
“Multicultural education weakens the cultural glue of assimilation”
Jonathan Haidt, The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion