Rels 205 Lecture 3.1 Religious Traditions

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Rels 205 Lecture 3.1Religious Traditions
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Lecture Outline for Part One of Rels 205.01
Week 1 Lecture 1 What is Religion?Lecture 2
Studying Religion Week 2 Lecture 1 Ritual and
the Study of ReligionLecture 2 Religious and
Secular Traditions Week 3 Lecture 1 Religious
TraditionsLecture 2 Institutions Week 4 Lecture
1 The Meaning of MythLecture 2 Sacred
Sentiments Week 5 Lecture 1 Changing
WorldviewsLecture 2 Review Week 6 Reading
Week Week 7 Lecture 1 First in class test
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Identified with a Tradition
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Tradition
Tradition that which is handed down or passed
on from the past as distinct from modern ideas
and theories.
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Great and Little Traditions
Robert Redfield (1897-1958)
Little traditions Experiential Oral
Great traditions Intellectual Written
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Great and Little Traditions II
Great tradition Catholicism
Little tradition African religion
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World Religions 1905
Sikhism 10,000,000
Judaism 10,000,000
Buddhism 50,000,000
African 157,000,000
Islam 205,000,000
Hinduism 210,000,000
Confucian 240,000,000
Christianity 520,000,000
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World Religions 2005
Mormons 10,000,000
Jews 14,000,000
Sikhs 23,000,000
African 100,000,000
Buddhism 374,000,000
Chinese religions 394,000,000
Hinduism 9.000,000
Islam 1.2 billion
Christianity 2.1 billion
Christianity 2.1 billion
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Major Religious Traditions
Primal Traditions Yogic Traditions Abramic
Traditions
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Primal Experiences
Primal experiences are fundamental spiritual
experiences that shape our sense of the sacred
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Ancestral Religions
Ancestral religions are religions that are
directly based on primal experiences involving
things like the ancestors and healing.
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Primal Experiences and Ancestral Traditions
Primal Experiences Dreams Visions Prophecies Hea
lings Revelations Miracles Voices Ghosts
Primal Traditions African Religions Confucianism
Native American Traditions Shamanism New
Religions Revitalization Movements
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Yogic Religions
Yogic religions are spiritual traditions based
on the practice of one of the many forms of
yoga. Yogic doctrines include karma, the wheel
of existence, and some form of transmigration or
reincarnation.
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Yoga
In the West yoga is associated with physical
exercises and particular postures used in
meditation. Actually yoga is a Sanskrit term
meaning to yoke and is used to describe various
processes of spiritual discipline or harnessing
of physical and mental powers to attain
self-control and ultimate enlightenment.
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Yogic Traditions
Hindu Traditions
Early Indian religions and Indus valley culture.
Jain Traditions
Buddhist Traditions
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Major Yogic Traditions
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Hindu Traditions
Indus valley religion
Early Hindu religion
Religions of devotion Bhakti
Philosophical Schools
Vedanta etc..
Hara Krishna etc.
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The Hindu Tradition
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Buddhist Tradition
Early Buddhism
Mahayana
Hinayana
Pure Land
Zen
Nicheren
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Buddhism
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Abramic Religions
Abramic religions trace their ancestry to the
patriarch Abraham. The major religions in this
grouping are Christianity, Islam and Judaism.
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Major Abramic Traditions
Hebrew Religion
Christianity
Judaism
Islam
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Abramic Religious Tradition
Christianity
T R A N S I T I O N
Hebrew Religion
Islam
African and other Judaisms
Judaism
Modernity
70 CE
70-250
BC 70-250AD 250-700AD 1785
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Jewish Religious Traditions
BC 70-25 250-900 900-1700 CE
1700-Present AD
Z I O N I S M
Hebrew Religion
T R A N S I T I O N
African and other Judaisms
Talmudic Judaism
Classical Judaism
Reformed
Orthodox
Hasidic
Ethnic
C19 - Present
70-250
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Judaism
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The Christian Tradition
0-400 1500 1965 AD
E A R L Y C H U R C H
Coptic, Syriac, Indian, and other smaller
traditions
Eastern Orthodoxy Greek, Russian, etc.
Roman Catholicism
1965
Charismatic Movement
1520
Nestorians etc.
Protestantism
African and other Christian Movements
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Christian Fundamentalism
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Mainline Churches
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Eastern Orthodoxies
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The Islamic Tradition
BM 571-632 700- 765 900 1750
1889 1967 AD
Early IslamMuhammad (571-632)
Wahhabis Saudi Arabia
Sunni Islam Egypt, Turkey
Kharijtes - Yemen and Oman
Shiite Islam Iran -Khomeni
Qarmatins - Tunisia Egypt
Ismaili Shia Islam () Aga Kahn
Druzes 10th C Lebanon Israel
Ahamadiya India
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Islam
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The Yogic-Islamic Traditions
Yogic Religions
Sikhism (1500) Punjab, India
Bahai (1844) Iran
Subud (1933) Java
Islamic Traditions
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The Canadian Situation
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Canadian Religious Affiliation 1881-2001
P PopulationC Western ChristianN Nones
?E Eastern ChristianY Yogic
BuddhistHinduSikhM Islam
Blue 1991 Brown 1981 Green 1881
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CND Religious Affiliation as of Population
1991 1891
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Eastern Christian-Muslim Affiliation 1991
Red Eastern Christian Green Muslim
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Millennialism
Millennium 1,000 years Revelation 20, n.b. vs.
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Millennialism defined

• Any religious movement that hopes for salvation
  that is
• collective, to be enjoyed by all the faithful as
  a group
• (b) terrestrial, to be realized on this earth
• (c) imminent, to come soon and suddenly
• (d) total, to transform life on earth completely
  
• (e) miraculous, to be brought about by, or with
  the help of, supernatural agencies.

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A New Heaven and a New Earth
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Paradise on Earth
Revelation 211-4
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Restoration
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Millennial Movements
Christian End of the world is nigh Buddhist
Maitraya Islamic Madhi
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Millennial Types
Post-millennialism A-millennialism Pre-millennia
lism
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Traditional Eschatology Post-Millenialism
Eschatology study of the last
things Post-Millenialism Christ returns after
the millennium
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Key Post- Millennial Ideas
1) Preach gospel of the Kingdom of God 2)
Establish the Kingdom 3) World is getting
better 4) Christ returns at the end of time 5)
The Church is the new Israel
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A- Millennialism
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Key A-Millennial Ideas

• All doctrines must be based on clear Biblical
  statements.
• 2) The Bible uses many different forms of
  language
• e.g. poetic, historical, prophetic, prose, etc.
• 3) The Bible teaches Christ will return.
• 4) The Bible teaches Christians to live in the
  expectation
• of Christs return.
• 5) There are no clear teachings about when Christ
  will
• return or how this is going to take place.

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Pre-Millennialism
Pre-Millennial Christ returns before the
Millennium
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Key Pre-Millennial Ideas
1) Preach the gospel of salvation 2) Save
souls 3) World is getting worse 4) Christs
return is imminent 5) The State of Israel fulfils
Biblical prophecy
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Pre-millennialism - Origins
Plymouth Brethren
John Nelson Darbys (1800-1882)
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Dispensationalism
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Judge C. I. Schofield (1843-1921)
Schofield Reference Bible (1909)
Dispensationalism
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Schofields Scheme
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Christian Zionism by Don Lewisand