Language and it’s Influences

• Language is a means of communication and all languages structures like: rules of grammar, specialized vocabulary, and systems of pronunciation

• These are both very large and very small languages. Like the regional lingo some places have vs the entire English language

• Language is also a result of social, economic, and political phenomenon like imperialism, migration or slavery where people are from one region to another and develop new ways of communicating

Slang, Dialects, Social Media and Nonverbal

• Languages are organized into different families, that are rooted in prehistoric origins, and then further categorized into branches and groups

• States have been influential in formalizing language and promoting that use in courts, legislature, administration and business

• However people adapt language and speech through various modes oF expression including creating new words and slang, responding to technology through social media and developing dialects

• Human communication is also very dependent on non verbal communication like dance, visual cues, sound, gestures and sign language

Pilgrimages and Sacred Spaces

• Sacred spaces are physical settings recognized by a community of people as significant to religious and spiritual

• Sacred spaces can be anything from the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem(a temple) to the Black Hills(nature) in South Dakota for the Lakota people. Pilgrimages are journeys to the pose spaces

• Yi-Fu Tuan, a geographer, defines sacred spaces as those that rise above commonplace and interrupt ordinary routine

Distribution of World Religions

• There are four major world religions Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam. They each originated from a specific place but have spread across the globe through diaspora

• Hinduism began an in India and eventually developed another practice, Buddhism, in Nepal. Christianity and Islam were both born in the Middle East. Both India and the Middle East are regions of massive waves of migration and culture sharing

• Religions impact on law, culture, language, and social relationships intensifies after each place assumed an “official religion”

Religions vs Religious Movements

• Religions are belief systems and sets of practices that incorporate the idea of a power higher than humans. When there beliefs are formalized through a system of rituals they are organized religions

• Religious movements are when people interpret the teaching and harness those beliefs in social and political movement (anti abortion)