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Question 1

What is Religion?

Answer 1

Religion is a distinctive response to human search for meaning in life

Question 2

What is Supernatural Dimension?

Answer 2

Refers to aspects or elements beyond the customary range of our experiences that cannot be explained according to natural life.

Question 3

Where is a Supernatural Dimension?

Answer 3

Place where a almighty power exists, meaning that it is greater than the natural world and humankind itself

Question 4

What are the 3 Semitic (Abrahamic) Religious Traditions?

Answer 4

Christianity, Judaism, Islam

Question 5

What is a Semitic Religious Tradition?

Answer 5

Emphasise the idea of God being revealed to humankind through an Intermediary
- Someone revealing God to humanity

Question 6

What is an Immanent Worldview?

Answer 6

Refers to the discovery of spiritual truth from within the human spirit

Question 7

What are the two Immanent Religions?

Answer 7

Hinduism, Buddhism

Question 8

Example of Immanent Religion?

Answer 8

Buddhists aim for Englighment guided by the Eightfold Path

Question 9

What is a Belief?

Answer 9

An acceptance of something as true/real

Question 10

Example of Belief

Answer 10

Jesus of Nazareth was the Son is God
Jews believe they are in a Covenant with God, and by serving him will be rewarded with blessing and protection

Question 11

What is a Believer?

Answer 11

People who follow these beliefs, including saints, holy people

Question 12

What are Sacred Texts and Writings?

Answer 12

Gifted to humanity by God, the result of revelation

Question 13

Example of Sacred Text -

Answer 13

Qu’ran - revelation by Allah to Prophet Muhammad

Question 14

What are Ethics?

Answer 14

Things that clarify right from wrong, central to all religions and focus on the belief structure

Question 15

What are Rituals and Ceremonies?

Answer 15

Expressing religion in terms or prayer, worship, preaching, connecting living believers with the tradition of the Religion

Question 16

Example of Ritual and Ceremonies

Answer 16

Jewish Bar/Bat Mitzvah celebrating the coming of age for teenagers
Shabbat on Friday night, reciting the Torah sharing a meal

Question 17

How do Individuals contribute to Religion?

Answer 17

Contribute to the search for meaning in the lives of individuals, sense of self, understanding and belonging

Question 18

How does Society contribute to Religion?

Answer 18

Religion changes, shapes and develops human culture to sustain a diverse society, helping us to understand the meaning of existence, and helping to sustain the

Question 19

How does Culture contribute to Religion?

Answer 19

Religion has influence on artworks e.g The Last Supper, this creates social cohesion by establishing rites of passage within a culture through rituals and ceremonies

Question 20

What is the Dreaming?

Answer 20

The centre of Aboriginal Spirituality, life and culture. A Metatemporal concept that encompasses all aspects of Aboriginal life

Question 21

What is Origins of the Universe?

Answer 21

Every land feature in the enviournment has a dreaming story attached to it.

Question 22

What are Dreaming Tracks?

Answer 22

All Ancestral spirits left behind a trail of their lives, called Dreaming Tracks. These tracks are recreated in traditional songs and ceremonies

Question 23

What are Sacred Sites?

Answer 23

Land, rock formations, part of rivers or seas. Knowledge of sites is limited, rarely shared with the wider community

Question 24

What are Stories of the Dreaming?

Answer 24

Stories that tell aspects of Aboriginal lifestyle and law, explaining the creation of land, the animals and the people

Question 25

What is Symbolism and Art?

Answer 25

Body painting, drawn on the sand or painted on various surfaces. Art can be used for rituals or to identify the ownership of the Dreaming

Question 26

What is a Totem?

Answer 26

A natural object or animal that is believed to have spiritual significance

Question 27

What is Kinship?

Answer 27

Rights and responsibilities they have with the people and the land

Question 28

What are Areas of Commonality?

Answer 28

Belief of an Ancestral Spirit who came out of a darkened world and created the landscape, landforms, people, plants e.t.c

Question 29

What are Areas of Diversity?

Answer 29

Each nation has its own particular plant/animal which is a totem for that group of people, their own particular Dreaming bought to the present through songs, sacred sites and paintings

Question 30

Dialects of Aboriginals -

Answer 30

Each nation had their own dialect, as a result there are differences in Dreaming accounts

Question 31

Importance of the Dreaming for the life of the Aboriginal people

Answer 31

1. Is the essence of their being and permeates every aspect of Aboriginal life 2. Aboriginal Law is based on the belief that everything is connected and part of a living system 3. Relationships between all living things must be preserved 3. Aboriginal people live WITH the land, they do not EXPLOIT it

Question 32

Land and Dreaming -

Answer 32

- Physical link to the invisible, eternal, spiritual world - Unbreakable link between humans, ancestral beings and the spiritual world - Land is a sacred place, the Dreaming occurs on the land (e.g Rituals and Ceremonies, Body Painting and Dancing) - Follow songlines, providing knowledge, cultural values and wisdom to Indigenous people

Question 33

Identity -

Answer 33

- They speak of the land as their mother - Speak of the land as part of their Identity; 'I AM THE LAND' - They are part of the land not superior to it - A formal kinship exists between Aboriginal people and their area of land - They all came from an ancestral spirit