Celebrating Religious Diversity
The Eight Aspects of Religion
Beliefs - Beliefs are core to a religion as they are the key understandings about a religion and how the operate like, how to live your life, how you should treat humans and animals or the belief of a God or Heaven.
Sacred Stories - Sacred stories are stories that have been told for many generations about a person, place or happening. These stories would need to be relevant to the religion like, someone gaining their eyesight back though a miracles.
Religious Experience - Religious Experiences are times when you experience the religion yourself like going to church and praying for someone you know.
Religious Rituals - Religious Rituals are repetitive acts you would do in your religion for example are praying, gathering to a place of worship and completing sacraments.
Social Structure - Social Structure is the structure the people and the places of religions like lay people at the bottom, Priests, Bishops, Arch-Bishops, Cardinal and the Pope.
Sacred Text - A Sacred Text is a text that has been written by a God or Prophet.
Religious Ethics - Religious Ethics are a set of rules and guild lines that the people of the religion must follow. Some examples are, treat others how you want to be treated which is one rule that is in all main religions.
Sacred Symbols - Sacred Symbols are symbols that have a strong meaning in a religion like the cross in Christianity or the crescent moon and star in Islam
Sacred Stories - Sacred stories are stories that have been told for many generations about a person, place or happening. These stories would need to be relevant to the religion like, someone gaining their eyesight back though a miracles.
Religious Experience - Religious Experiences are times when you experience the religion yourself like going to church and praying for someone you know.
Religious Rituals - Religious Rituals are repetitive acts you would do in your religion for example are praying, gathering to a place of worship and completing sacraments.
Social Structure - Social Structure is the structure the people and the places of religions like lay people at the bottom, Priests, Bishops, Arch-Bishops, Cardinal and the Pope.
Sacred Text - A Sacred Text is a text that has been written by a God or Prophet.
Religious Ethics - Religious Ethics are a set of rules and guild lines that the people of the religion must follow. Some examples are, treat others how you want to be treated which is one rule that is in all main religions.
Sacred Symbols - Sacred Symbols are symbols that have a strong meaning in a religion like the cross in Christianity or the crescent moon and star in Islam
Catholicism and Buddhism
Catholicism
A belief in a single God
Kingdom of Heaven
Jesus was the son of God
The Ten Commandments
1.You shall have no other gods before me.
2.You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below.
3.You shall not misuse the name of the Lord your God
4.Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy
5.Honor your father and your mother
6.You shall not murder
7.You shall not commit adultery
8.You shall not steal
9.You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor
10.You shall not covet
The holy Trinity
The Gospel
The Bible
Going to Church
Praying to God
Sacraments (Baptism, Reconciliation, Confirmation, Eucharist, Marriage, Holy Orders, Anointing of the Sick)
Kingdom of Heaven
Jesus was the son of God
The Ten Commandments
1.You shall have no other gods before me.
2.You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below.
3.You shall not misuse the name of the Lord your God
4.Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy
5.Honor your father and your mother
6.You shall not murder
7.You shall not commit adultery
8.You shall not steal
9.You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor
10.You shall not covet
The holy Trinity
The Gospel
The Bible
Going to Church
Praying to God
Sacraments (Baptism, Reconciliation, Confirmation, Eucharist, Marriage, Holy Orders, Anointing of the Sick)
Similarities
Going to a place of worship
The ten commandants and the five precepts have much in common
The ten commandants and the five precepts have much in common
Buddhism
Lord Buddha
The purpose of life
Rebirth
Nirvana
Buddhist Temple
The Five Precepts
No killing or causing harm to other living beings
Not taking the
not-given
Avoiding sexual misconduct
Avoiding false speech
Don't drink or take drugs that cloud the mind
Tripitaka
Sutras
The Tibetan book of the dead
The purpose of life
Rebirth
Nirvana
Buddhist Temple
The Five Precepts
No killing or causing harm to other living beings
Not taking the
not-given
Avoiding sexual misconduct
Avoiding false speech
Don't drink or take drugs that cloud the mind
Tripitaka
Sutras
The Tibetan book of the dead
The Ecumenical Movement
The Ecumenical Movement began in 1910 and the goal was to unite the Christan churches of the world to make one united church. There was a big push for the movement when Vatican II was around, though before Vatican II there was much hostility between the churches. Some of the differences are that some churches do not believe Mary is the mother of God, how the Eucharist works and if it is a transformative experience or a symbolic experience.
The current Pope has put this high on his agenda as it is quite an important thing.
The current Pope has put this high on his agenda as it is quite an important thing.
The Second Vatican Council
The Second Vatican Council was about modernising the church and to fix up things that wasn't relevant to this day and age. Some of the things that they have fixed up are,
Services changed to local language
Involvement of lay people
Priest faces the congregation
Communion now able to receive and accept the host and allowed to chew
Introduction of wine and able to be received by others
Woman allowed to enter church without a head covering
Role of woman changed somewhat, allowed to read
Nuns no longer required to wear a habit
Changing of ideas about other religions, introduced towards other religions
How God is revealed to us
Modern world
Modern means of communication.
Bibliography
Dimensions of Religion worksheet
Vatican II and the Ecumenical Movement notes
Vatican II and the Ecumenical Movement notes