Questions On History And Beliefs

1. Ahimsa- nonviolence belief means extremely gentle or harmless. This is the core belief in Jainism. It includes avoiding occupations that may harm other living animals including insects, using items made from animals such as leather and feathers.

One of the youngest amongst the major world religions, is a monotheistic religion that originated in South Asia (sub-continental India) during the 15th century. Founded by by the first guru Nanuk

The people that who beliefs this religion and practitioner is having to do with ancestral spirits. This religion originates come from West Africa by a tribe called the Yoruba tribe and influences the culture. Why do I think that American have this religion because I guess a long time ago the tribe was captured and brought to the America as slaves. “After the Haitian revolution made Haiti an independent nation in 1804, the influx of African slaves was cut off, but the larger Haitian citizenry of African descent continued to develop elaborate African-inspired traditions” (World religions in America Introduction to Afro-Caribbean Traditions). Bought, sold killed, they suffered and were stuck into the Roman Catholic religion. Forced to practice in secret. “It is popularly described that Vodou is not simply a religion, but rather, an experience that ties both body and soul together” (Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia). In this religion some of their God's name is Baku who is the god of evil, which doing bad thing I guess. The people who they don’t like, and they put a curse, Such as neighboring tribes and people who commute for him. Vodou religion has many individual gods, but one of the God name is an Ague Mouie Soto who god of war. They really believe that when they are at war before they bless themselves so they are successful blessing. In their religion, Priests are a man who do Vodun and the mambo is a woman who do Vodun. They can obviously can be men or women and women are limited though they cannot do the ritual of raising the dead. There is something about not being trained properly even if a man was training

What this religion teaches is to find yourself as to become one with your soul and mind in all greatness. As to know the strength of your mind, and know

Buddhism was founded by Prince Siddharta Gautama also known as Buddha around the 6th century BCE in India. After he saw the suffering in the outside world he left his palace to seek answers and became the enlightened one teaching about the dharma in the rest of his life. Today it has around ~350million followers. It doesn’t fit exactly into the term as a religion as it also has philosophy teachings (Brodd 145).

During this first week, we were given a brief introduction into Buddhism: the beliefs, the origin, and the life of the Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama. We first learned about the impact that society and the caste system in India had on the practice of asceticism, which ideals would later be adapted into the Buddhist belief. The caste system is a social hierarchy or a way of separating people in terms of the social/economical class in which they were born. During lecture these ascetics were compared to the “hippies” of counterculture movement or like the hipsters of today’s era, people who go against the grain or societal norms to fulfill some type of personal development/enlightenment/pleasure. The main difference between the traditional ascetics

A third teaching of Jainism is that lying and exaggeration are damaging practices that are to be avoided. On another hand Jainism also teaches that “absolute truth” is impossible to express because everyone experiencing any given situation from a unique perspective. Other teachings condemn stealing, and confine acceptable sexual practices to those between a married couple, both of which try to curb improper desire, and stop the perpetuation of pain inflicted on others. These teachings, which emphasized acceptable societal practices are similar to the Dharma of Hinduism, which emphasized social obligations (Molloy, p196, 2010).

Has over 300 million members, and was founded around 2, 500 years ago in India. The founder is Gautama Siddhartha, the Buddha, or referred to as the "Enlightened One."

Desire is known as the human craving for sensual pleasure, fear of physical death, and avoidance of unpleasant situations. Buddhist’s ultimate goal is to remove the suffering by letting go greed and desire. Many followers of Buddhism refrain from grieving at a funeral, weeping the loss of a job, and having high expectations of riches. Monks take a vow that strips themselves of all of their possessions even shoes and hair. They do not work and are completely dependent on the generosity of others to eat. Each individual seeking interaction with the sacred is requested to constantly follow the three jewels at all time. The first Jewel involves taking refuge in the Buddha. During this time an individual must strip themselves of all tangible items before reenacting the life of Buddha. They will dress like Buddha, shave their heads like Buddha, and practice meditation like Buddha. The second Jewel is, “I take refuge in the dharma”. This includes five basic concepts such as abstaining from taking life, abstaining from stealing, abstain from inappropriate sexual conduct, abstaining from false speech, and abstaining from alcohol or drugs. As a result, the person seeking the status of a monk can focus on reaching inner enlightenment. The last Jewel is, “I take refuge in the sangha”. Sangha is a Buddhist community that comes together for several months every year. During these meetings, monks join together to

This is the deepest spiritual religion which penetrates on a person’s inner self. It makes you get in touch with your inner self, makes you find yourself which makes you become sensitive and have strong emotions towards certain things. Their population is over 370 million. Their adherents seek to fulfill Buddha, their gods dream to pursue their religion in a different state of mind. They also believe that their god Buddha can always fix anything for them. And nothing will be permanently damage.

3a. O’Connor identifies three ways modern people tend to deal with religious questions and the existence of God. List these here.

Modern changes in society with regards to family structure and other moral issues have some members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints questioning Church doctrine. Is it wrong to have gospel doctrine questions? No. A question elicits information. Questions compel learning and growth.

Most of the woman who are entered into this business did not chose to be, but were placed into by their family members. That is the complete opposite of what Mataji encountered with her group. Mataji had left her entire family, which was pretty well off and would allow any child grow up happy, and she followed a religion that led her to become nun. Another difference between the two groups is that Jainism does not give the followers or pilgrims anything back in return. They do not receive rewards or benefits from believing and following the Tirthankaras.

Jains have five incredibly important aspects that they follow. The first is ahimsa, non-harm, not only to themselves but to everyone and their environment. Next, Jains believe in telling the truth; they don't believe in over exaggerating or lying because it can cause pain to someone (which brakes ahimsa).

     Jainism was distinguished for their extreme practices, even to the severity of death by self starvation. They focus on asceticism or the mortification of the flesh and individuals, striving toward moral perfection by means of nonviolence. They especially avoid harming any living creature since every manifestation of nature has