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    Religion has caused several significant historical events: 1) In 1963, a Buddhist monk named Thich Quang Duc self-immolated in Vietnam to protest religious discrimination by the Catholic regime, bringing international attention. 2) The Hindu practice of sati, where widows burned on their husband's funeral pyre, originated 700 years ago and was still occurring in recent times, such as a case in 2006. 3) The Catholic Inquisition beginning in the 12th century responded to heretical movements by using torture, authorized in 1252, to punish heretics like Cathars and Waldensians.

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    Religion has caused several significant historical events: 1) In 1963, a Buddhist monk named Thich Quang Duc self-immolated in Vietnam to protest religious discrimination by the Catholic regime, bringing international attention. 2) The Hindu practice of sati, where widows burned on their husband's funeral pyre, originated 700 years ago and was still occurring in recent times, such as a case in 2006. 3) The Catholic Inquisition beginning in the 12th century responded to heretical movements by using torture, authorized in 1252, to punish heretics like Cathars and Waldensians.

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    Religion has caused several significant historical events: 1) In 1963, a Buddhist monk named Thich Quang Duc self-immolated in Vietnam to protest religious discrimination by the Catholic regime, bringing international attention. 2) The Hindu practice of sati, where widows burned on their husband's funeral pyre, originated 700 years ago and was still occurring in recent times, such as a case in 2006. 3) The Catholic Inquisition beginning in the 12th century responded to heretical movements by using torture, authorized in 1252, to punish heretics like Cathars and Waldensians.

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    (HUMSS_WRB12I/IIIc-3.2 )
    • In some regions in the world, religion has
    become very influential in almost every
    aspect of human activity—from personal
    routines to diplomatic relations.
    Here are some of the
    historical events that are
    caused by religion.
    1.Self-Immolation of a Buddhist Monk in Vietnam
    • Self-immolation, or the killing of oneself as a
    form of sacrifice, originally referred to as the act
    of setting oneself on fire.
    • But now it refers to a much wider range of
    suicidal choices such as leaping off a cliff,
    starvation, or ritual removing of the guts (also
    known as seppuku).
    • It is used as a form of political protest or
    martyrdom.
    • The case of self-immolation reported by the
    Western media was that of a Buddhist
    monk named Thich Quang Duc in Vietnam
    in 1963, who set himself on fire in the
    middle of a street in South Vietnam.
    • This was done in protest against the
    religious discrimination being experienced
    by the Buddhists in Vietnam by the Roman
    Catholic regime of Ngo Dinh Diem.
    2. Widow Burning Among the Hindus in India

    • Sati, or the practice of self-immolation of a


    widow on her husband’s funeral pyre, is said
    to have originated 700 years ago in India.
    • It is believed to have started among the
    ruling class or rajputs in India, when the
    rajput women burnt themselves to death after
    their men were defeated in battles to avoid
    being taken by the conquerors.
    • In 2006, a Hindu woman was reported to
    have committed sati in Tuslipar village in the
    central state of Madhya Pradesh.
    • The woman, whose name was Janakrani,
    was said to have burnt herself to death on the
    funeral pyre of her husband Prem Narayan.
    3. The Inquisition
    • Inquisition refers to the Roman Catholic Church groups
    charged with subduing heresy from around 1184.
    • The Inquisition was a response to large popular
    movements in Europe considered heretical or profane to
    Christianity, particularly :
    Catharism (a Christian dualist movement which espoused
    the idea of two gods, one being good and the other evil)
    and;
     Waldensians (a Protestant Christian movement which
    advocated that apostolic poverty is the way to perfection) in
    southern France and southern Italy.
    • The word “inquisition,” has somehow become
    associated with the word “torture.”
    • This is because after 1252, torture was used
    to punish the heretics.
    • papal bull was issued by Pope Innocent IV,
    the Ad exstirpanda, which authorized the use
    of torture by inquisitors.
    4. THE GODHRA TRAIN INCIDENT IN 2002
    • In February 2002, a train was set on fire in which 59
    people, including 25 women and 15 children, were
    killed.
    • The fire happened inside the Sabarmati Express
    train near the Godhra railway station in the Indian
    state of Gujarat.
    • Those who died inside the train were mostly Hindu
    pilgrims and activists returning from the holy city of
    Ayodhya after a religious ceremony at the disputed
    Babri Masjid site.
    • It took six years for the commission appointed to
    investigate the said incident to conclude that the
    fire was committed by a mob of 1000-2000 people.
    • Thirty-one Muslims were convicted by the court for
    the incident and conspiracy for the crime.
    • Hindus accuse the Muslims of demolishing a
    previous Hindu temple on the site to create the
    Babri mosque, which was destroyed by radical
    Hindu activists during a political rally that turned
    into a riot on December 6, 1992.
    APPLICATION:

    1. Can you think of other cases of


    religious conflicts aside from the ones
    mentioned?
    2. Do you agree that sometimes religious
    conflicts are being used for political
    reasons? Why or why not?

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