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    Introduction To World Religion and Belief System

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    This document provides an introduction to world religions and belief systems. It discusses how world views shape a culture's concept of reality, including what is good, important and sacred. It also explains that geography influences religious ideas through things like early map-making and biblical geography. The spread of faith has been shaped by geographical context, such as Israel being the promised land for Jews. Finally, it notes that Asia is the birthplace of many major world religions.

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    This document provides an introduction to world religions and belief systems. It discusses how world views shape a culture's concept of reality, including what is good, important and sacred. It also explains that geography influences religious ideas through things like early map-making and biblical geography. The spread of faith has been shaped by geographical context, such as Israel being the promised land for Jews. Finally, it notes that Asia is the birthplace of many major world religions.

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    This document provides an introduction to world religions and belief systems. It discusses how world views shape a culture's concept of reality, including what is good, important and sacred. It also explains that geography influences religious ideas through things like early map-making and biblical geography. The spread of faith has been shaped by geographical context, such as Israel being the promised land for Jews. Finally, it notes that Asia is the birthplace of many major world religions.

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    Introduction to World Religion and Belief System

    Welcome students!
    • World View, is the basic way of interpreting things and events that
    pervades a culture so thoroughly that it becomes a culture’s concept of
    reality-what is good, what is important, what is sacred, what is real.

    A. Carol Hill B. Matt Slick?


    2. According to him a worldview is a set of beliefs used to understand
    the world. Everyone has a set of principles by which
    to judge right and wrong and which guides them in everyday living.

    A. Carol Hill B. Matt Slick?


    What have you
    Remembered?
    3. They believe that only the spiritual dimension exists. All else is
    illusion.
    A. Naturalism B. Pantheism
    4. This is the belief in many gods or deities.
    A. Polytheism B. Pantheism

    5. The world is inhabited by spirit beings who govern earthly


    activities.
    A. Spiritism B. Naturalism
    What have you
    Remembered?
    Introduction to World Religion and Belief System

    The Interplay of
    Religion and
    Geography
    Week 2
    Geography
    is the study of earth
    and its people. Its
    features are things
    like continents, seas,
    rivers, and
    mountains.
    Religious Geography
    by which geographical ideas are
    influenced by religion such as early
    map-making, and biblical
    geography that developed in the
    16th century to identify places from
    the Bible.(Kong, 1990). Spreading
    the faith has been shaped by
    geographical context.
    it is the land promised to them by their God
    Yahweh through Abraham. In the book of Genesis
    God said to Abraham, “Go from your land, from
    your birthplace, and from your father’s house to
    the land that I will show you.” (Genesis 12:1).
    ASIA
    Asia is the largest and most populous continent
    and the birthplace of many religions including
    Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, Hinduism,
    Islam, Jainism, Judaism, Shinto, Sikhism, Taoism,
    and Zoroastrianism

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