World Religions

Religion Origin of All Things Nature of God View of Human Nature View of Good and Evil View of “Salvation” View of After Life Practices and Rituals Celebrations and Festivals Week 1 Indigenous Peoples Bursts of Cosmic Energy creates everything God is in everything Humans should be in touch with nature and all that is around them Good and Evil is in everyone and everything They must choose which one they act upon Balance with Nature and everything in it Most have no specific mention of the afterlife  Sacred Sites  Personal ways of practicing  Secret Societies  Priests/Priestesses  Healers  Storytelling  Chanting  Drumming  Dancing Week 2 Hinduism and Jainism No specific origin or founder Gods are in male and female form and represent many different things Karma, what comes around goes around good actions have good effects, bad actions have bad effects- karma Moksha is when an enlightened human being is freed from the cycle of life-and- death (the endless cycle of death and reincarnati on) and comes into a state of completene ss. He then becomes one with God. Samsara- reincarnation Sculptures Images Home shrines Meditation Ayurveda Hatha Yoga Kundalini Yoga Puja (Pooja) Diwali Holi Durga Puja Raksha Bandhan Krishna Janmashthami Ganesh Chaturthi Shiv Ratri The Onam Carnival Vasant Panchami Guru Purnima Karwa Chauth Bhai Dooj Vasanta Navaratri The Kumbh & Ardhkumbh Week 3 Buddhism beginning of this world and of life is inconceivable since they have neither beginning nor end do not believe in the concept of a personal God, a composite of five aggregates (khandas): Physical forms good and evil are innate, inseparable aspects of life Buddha realized that each and every person has a capacity after death one is either reborn into another body (reincarnated) or enters nirvana Meditation Mantras Mudras Prayer wheels  Buddhist New Year  Buddha's Birthday is known as Vesak or Enlightened being, who vows to save all sentient beings from their sufferings (rupa) Feelings or sensations (vedana) Ideations (sanna) Mental formations or dispositions (sankhara) Consciousnes s (vinnana) These khandas come together at birth to form a human person. A person is a "self" in that he or she is a true subject of moral action and karmic accumulation, but not in the sense that he or she has an enduring or unchanging soul. good and evil in Buddhism are seen not as absolute but relative or "relational." The good or evil of an act is understood in terms of its actual impact on our own lives and the lives of others, not on abstract rules of conduct to purify his soul and mind and therefore he encourage d people to find solutions to their problems themselves . He asked people to follow the path from Heart to Heaven rather than from Heaven to Heart. And therefore, the Buddhist path to salvation does not go through prayers, but is rather based on deeds including mental culture through meditation. Nirvana is only achieved by those that reach enlightenment Visakah Puja  Songkran- (essentially a cleansing of life by cleaning homes and washing clothes etc.)  The Ploughing Festival(May, when the moon is half- full, two white oxen pull a gold painted plough, followed by four girls dressed in white who scatter rice seeds from gold and silver baskets. This is to celebrate the Buddha's first moment of enlightenment )  Loy Krathong: When the rivers and canals are full of water, this festival takes place in all parts of Thailand on

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