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Unit 3: Religion History of Religion Mr. Young Sociology

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Unit 3: Religion

History of Religion

Mr. Young

Sociology

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I CAN:

1. Define the word religion

2. Explain how religion is used for good purposes in the world

3. Analyze why people twist religion and use it in bad ways

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Where to Begin?

Religion can encompass a vast and broad spectrum that is hard to define

Comes from Latin word religare (re:back and ligare: to bind), or being bound

This can be by choice, or sometimes by being forced

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Why Study Religion

Religion has always been with us It answers some of life’s most important

questions It helps a person to define those things that

are sacred in their lives It helps people explain those things in life that

are unexplainable

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Religion and the Social

Religion is the tie that binds a community together through various forms of beliefs and practice. It is an institution that contributes important ideas to society at large; it also connects with specific aspects of non-religious social life, like economics and politics

http://www.studyreligion.org/what/index.html

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Misconceptions of Religion

1. You have to be religious to study religion

2. Studying religion is impractical Religion is a good way to study the culture

of a past society It also helps to gain great insight and

knowledge into that culture Religion can teach good values and morals,

even if you are not religious

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In the Name of Religion

Abortion Clinic Bombings Holy Wars (Crusades) Terrorism and Suicide Mass Suicides Adulteries and Affairs Power, Money, Fame

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Abortion Clinic Bombings

Some of these are done in the name of religion

Army of God- anti-abortion group that promotes the use of violence against abortion clinics

Key members- Eric Rudolph Pled guilty to bombing at least 4 places,

killing of at least two people On FBI’s Top Ten Most wanted list

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Army of God Manual "Beginning officially with the passage of the Freedom of Choice

Act - we, the remnant of God-fearing men and women of the United States of Amerika (sic), do officially declare war on the entire child killing industry. After praying, fasting, and making continual supplication to God for your pagan, heathen, infidel souls, we then peacefully, passively presented our bodies in front of your death camps, begging you to stop the mass murdering of infants. Yet you hardened your already blackened, jaded hearts. We quietly accepted the resulting imprisonment and suffering of our passive resistance. Yet you mocked God and continued the Holocaust. No longer! All of the options have expired. Our Most Dread Sovereign Lord God requires that whosoever sheds man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed. Not out of hatred of you, but out of love for the persons you exterminate, we are forced to take arms against you. Our life for yours - a simple equation. Dreadful. Sad. Reality, nonetheless. You shall not be tortured at our hands. Vengeance belongs to God only. However, execution is rarely gentile."

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Army of God

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Army of God Videos

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcFjrSelcKY

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Crusade Videos

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8n0qAH7nzI&feature=related

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Holy Wars (Crusades)

Started around 1090 and lasted till around 1300

Crusade literally means, “Going to the Cross” Idea was to free Jerusalem and the other holy

places from the Muslims Only two successful crusades and also had

two children’s crusades (useless) 3rd crusade between Saladin and Richard the

Lion-heart

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Crusades

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Terrorism and Suicide

This can be found in today’s society with the Radical/Extreme religious groups

Feel that killing themselves and other infidels are the only certain way of getting to heaven

Usually brainwashed since a very early age Will be in the name of a religion, but most

religions do not teach about killing one another

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Terrorism

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Religious Terrorists

1. The individual believes that they are under attack

Evil is going to destroy their world and they must act

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Cont.

2. Convinced that God wants the evil destroyed

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Cont.

3. Violence is the only way to resolve the situation, and it is good in this case

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Cont.

4. Become convinced that God has chosen them for this task

Don’t necessarily want to kill or die, but it is better to die doing what is right than live as a coward

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsU1yyGZENs&feature=fvst

Monty Python Part 3 (5:23)

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Cont.

5. These perspectives are nurtured by a community

The community supports them and people are more willing to do things in a community than by themselves

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Omar Hammami Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHVuvD4RsC0

Documentary (45 minutes)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eG5f2eZXy64&feature=related

Commentary on Doc above (5 min)

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Omar Hammami

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Mass Suicides

Will sometimes occur in radical religious groups or in cult settings

Feel that by doing this they can escape the present world and enter into a realm/afterlife that is better

Usually has a charismatic group leader with charismatic beliefs

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Jim Jones and Jonestown

Jim Jones and Jonestown- 918 members were killed by drinking red cool-aid or cyanide, largest mass suicide in history

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuJpTO9YU4M

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Heaven’s Gate/Hale-Bopp

Heaven’s Gate mass suicide- believed an alien space ship behind Comet Hale-Bopp and if they died they would be on it, 39 in all

In 1996 bought $10,000 worth of alien abduction insurance

http://www.5min.com/Video/The-Heavens-Gate-Mass-suicide-in-Rancho-Santa-Fe-California-120001572

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Heaven’s Gate Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nh35j2S68DQ

http://abcnews.go.com/Archives/video/march-26-1997-heavens-gate-cult-suicide-9702192

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzWpfq103q4

CNN Remembers: (5 min)