Religion Test - Social Studies

Where were Buddhism and Hinduism founded?

India

What does polytheistic mean?

The belief in multiple gods (Hinduism)

What does monotheistic mean?

The belief in one god (Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and Hinduism)

What does non-thestic mean?

The belief in no god (Buddhism)

What are semitic religions?

They describe people who came from the middle east (and their languages)

They are monotheistic

Jerusalem is sacred to all semitic religions

What religions are semitic?

Judaism, Islam, and Christianity (Christianity is semitic because it originated in the middle east)

What are the non-religions?

You don't follow any god.

Agnosticism, Deism, Atheism, and Theoretical Atheism

What is Agnosticism?

Agnosticism is the position of believing that knowledge of the existence or non-existence of god is impossible (does not deny the possibility of God's existence)

What is Deism?

Yes god exits but not one certain religion gets it right.

What is Atheism?

Atheism is denying the existence of god - can be spirtual

What is Theoretical Atheism?

Theoretical Atheism is accusing someone that they are an atheist because they don't believe in accusers god.

What are irreligions?

Irreligious people are against religions

Atheism and Theoretical Atheism are both also irreligious.

What was in the First Amendment?

The U.S was the first country to have no official religion.

Hinduism

Beginning, Founder, Holy Place, Sacred Test, God/Gods, Afterlife

Beginning : at least 400 BCE
Founder : none
Holy Place : the river ghana
Sacred Text : vedas
God/Gods : 1 supreme god brahman (at least 3 million little gods)
Afterlife : reincarnation

How many people practice Hinduism and what does Hindu mean?

1 billion practitioners, Hindu means Indian

Who started Hinduism?

Cannot be traced to a specific person or event

What does brahma do?

Brahma the creator creates the Earth 2,160,000,000 years later it falls to ruin and brahma creates again

The AUM

The Hindu symbol of supreme reality

What are the Hindu gods?

the Hindu triad includes Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva

Hinduism is polytheistic, but also considers itself monotheistic

Had many individual deities, but they include aspects of Brahma, the supreme being

What are the central ideas to hinduism?

Karma, Samsara, and Moksha

Karma and Dharma

The belief that a person experiences the effects of every thought, action, and word

Not a reward/punishment system, it is simply a belief in cause and effect

Dharma - one's responsible roles in life

Karmas connection to Samsara

The outcome of your karma declares what level in the Caste System you will be in your next life.

Samsara

The soul continues to be reincarnated eternally until librated.

It is believed a person meets many of the same people in different lives

The only way of escaping the cycle of samsara is by puryifing your karma

Samsara's connection to Moksha

Once you have purified all of your karma you have reached Moksha, which is a state of changeless bliss, and that is the only way to break the cycle of samsara

Moksha

a state of changeless bliss achieve by a life of religious devotion and moral integrity

in death, a believer is both grateful for the experience and hopeful for a chance at Moksha, the liberation from the cycle

moksha is the final union with the universal creative force

Buddhism

Beginning, Founder, Holy Place, Sacred Text, God/Gods, Afterlife

beginning : 2500 years ago
founder : buddha
holy place : bodhi tree
sacred test : there isn't one sacred text
god/gods : none
afterlife : nirvana (reached when you climate your desires, you don't need to be dead)

What are the 4 noble truths of Buddhism?

Dukka : Truth of suffering
Samudaya : Truth of the cause of suffering (greed/desires)
Nirodha : Truth of the end of suffering (ending desires)
Magga : Truth of the past ( eightfold path)

Buddhism Afterlife

Buddhism originated from Hinduism, and it never officially departs from hinduism's afterlife ideas

many practicing buddhists de-emphasize the notion of the afterlife

the concept of hell is transitory (temporary)

What is a large part of buddhism

Meditation