Essay Questions (4 points each): (1) In chapter 2‚ the textbook author uses various terms for “indigenous religions”: traditional‚ aboriginal‚ indigenous‚ tribal‚ nonliterate‚ primal‚ native‚ oral‚ and basic. Select four or five of these terms and discuss why you believe each of those terms is applicable to the religions covered in this chapter. (2) Why do so many indigenous religions have such a reverence for nature? Indigenous religions have such a reverence for nature because they have
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1. Discuss the fate of the indigenous populations of the United States‚ Canada and Latin America. How did their fate relate to the sense of mission in each area? During the 19th and early 20th centuries‚ many of the indigenous people were treated unfairly and no respect was given for either them or their land. Many of these natives were forced off their land and left homeless because industries wanted to use the land for industrial purposes. In places like the United States‚ the government would
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DMIN 516 CONTOURS OF LEADERSHIP AND EMERGING CULTURE DR. MARYKATE MORSE‚ PhD Samuel D. Stephens ACADEMIC ESSAY THE QUEST FOR INDIGENIETY December 10‚ 2012 CONTENTS Introduction 3 Indigenous Christian Movements in Africa‚ 5 Latin America and Asia – an overview Christianity Becomes Indian 7 Indigenized‚ Indigenous and Indigeniety 12 The Third Wave 16 Conclusion 19 Works Cited 21 Bibliography 23 Appendix 26 INTRODUCTION
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Religions and Indigenous Sacred Ways" Please respond to the following: Name and discuss at least three defining characteristics of indigenous religions. Then describe at least one aspect of indigenous religions that exists in a similar form in a traditional mainstream religion. Define religion‚ and discuss why it is useful in society. Explain why it is important for you personally to understand the beliefs of other religious groups. One major characteristic of an indigenous religion is the
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The power to make your own decisions and not have your choices determined by your genes and your past shows that the philosophy of free will is the most compelling philosophy. Naturalism is the philosophy that we‚ as humans‚ are influenced completely by our genes. The genes we were created and born with do not control the choices we make. If genes were the only things that influenced a person’s decisions‚ then scientists would be able to invent a machine that could make its own decisions and have
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“Free Will” appears as a reality or an illusion. “Free Will” takes one of the central questions of any religious realm. Whether a human has a freedom in his choice? Whether a human can make a personal‚ independent decision such us what he should do in each situation? Or are all of his actions predetermined‚ and the possibility of making a free choice an illusion? Since the time of the Greek philosopher Socrates to modern times‚ philosophers‚ theologians‚ scientists have tried to prove the existence
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Indigenous People Indigenous people are those that are native to an area. Throughout the world‚ there are many groups or tribes of people that have been taken over by the Europeans in their early conquests throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries‚ by immigrating groups of individuals‚ and by greedy corporate businesses trying to take their land. The people indigenous to Australia‚ Brazil and South America‚ and Hawaii are currently fighting for their rights as people: the rights to own
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Task 2 The Indigenous people – they are the holders of unique languages‚ knowledge and beliefs and of practices for use of natural resources. In addition‚ they have a special relation to their traditional land. Their land has a fundamental importance for their cultural survival for them as a people. Indigenous people hold their own diverse concepts of development. The development is based on their own traditional values‚ visions‚ needs and priorities. At least this is how it used to be for the
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Introduction The term indigenous has caused controversy across the world as some people see it an offensive name to describe people‚ the name is not the only thing that has caused a controversy also the people that this name applies to. Hence there have been many definitions of this word to try and make it more euphemism. Kuper (2003) agrees that this term causes a lot of debate. He argues that however most people prefer the word indigenous because it’s more euphemism than the term native and primitive
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