Lesson 4. What is an example of a religious sacred Text? Research one (1) religious Text, Include other relevant information.

Mr Morris.
Lesson 4.
6th Feb 2012.
Semester 1.

Research...

Australia is a religiously diverse country and has no official religion.

Christianity is the predominant faith of Australia. According to the 2006 census, the largest religious denomination is Roman Catholicism, of which 25.8% of the population claimed affiliation. The next largest is the Anglican faith, at 18.7%. Members of other Christian denominations accounted for 19.4% of the population.
Minority religions practiced in Australia include Buddhism (2.1% of the population), Islam (1.7%), Hinduism (0.7%) and Judaism (0.4%). Two percent of the population stated a different religion, which includes Sikhism and Indigenous beliefs, and 18.7% claimed no religion, while 11.2% did not respond.

What is an example of a religious sacred Text? Discuss...

Religious texts, also known as scripture, scriptures, holy writ, or holy books, are the texts which various religious traditions consider to be sacred, or of central importance to their religious tradition. Many religions and spiritual movements believe that their sacred texts are divinely or supernaturally revealed or inspired.

Research one (1) religious Text from one (1) of the underlined religions above, there are 9 to choose from. You may work in pairs!

USE THIS LINK AND REFERENCE IT AFTER YOU HAVE POSTED.

http://www.sacred-texts.com/world.htm

Put your name(s) next to the religion you will research below.
Aboriginal culture - isaac/mitch/maddison
Hinduism - Jaiden
Buddhism - Zak and Brodie
Roman Catholic CodyJohno
Judaism- Kane, Alex, Nathan
Anglican Faith-
Islam -Josh and Coen
Jewism-JARROD

Start your work with a Title and Your Name: E.g. Islam - Shaun Morris.

Hinuism - Jaiden
The Vedas: There are four Vedas, the Rig Veda, Sama Veda, Yajur Veda and Atharva Veda. The Vedas are the primary texts of Hinduism. They also had a vast influence on Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism. Traditionally the text of the Vedas was coeval with the universe. Scholars have determined that the Rig Veda, the oldest of the four Vedas, was composed about 1500 B.C., and codified about 600 B.C. It is unknown when it was finally committed to writing,  but this probably was at some point after 300 B.C.
http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/

islam - josh frew and coen carius
The Qur'an is the primary text of Islam, revealed to the Prophet Muhammed beginning in the year 610 C.E. It was canonicalized between 644 and 656. The Qur'an is required reading for anyone who wants to understand Islam. Qur'an means "The Recital" in Arabic; according to the story, the angel Gabriel commanded Muhammed to "Recite!".
http://www.sacred-texts.com/isl/index.htm

Roman Catholic-
In some Protestant Bibles, they are placed between the New and Old Testament. In the Roman Catholic Bibles the books are interspersed with the rest of the text. In this case they are also called 'Deuterocanonical', which means 'secondary canon.' The books on this page are all Deuterocanonical.
Jerome rejected the Deuterocanonical books when he was translating the Bible into Latin circa 450 CE, (see the Vulgate). This was because no Hebrew version of these texts could be found, even though they were present in the Greek Old Testament (the Septuagint). However, they eventually were accepted by the Church, and most of them remained part of the Bible. Protestants rejected these books during the Reformation as lacking divine authority. They either excised them completely or placed them in a third section of the Bible. The Roman Catholic Council of Trent, on the other hand, declared in 1546 that the Deuterocanonical books were indeed divine.
http://www.sacred-texts.com/bib/apo/index.htm

Aboriginal culture- Isaac/Mitch/Maddison
the historical context in which these books were written. The obvious problem with these books is that they were written by White Australians during the early twentieth century. This material contains racist and sexist characterizations, inaccurate depictions of aboriginal life and misrepresentations of their spiritual practices. the views from the aboriginals were wall paintings but werent documented for use outside the culture. http://www.sacred-texts.com/aus/index.htm

Buddhism - Zak and Brodie
Jataka
The Jataka is a huge collection of fables framed as previous incarnations of the Buddha, many of which either have parallels or derivatives in western folklore and literature. Although the Jataka is not considered part of the canonical Buddhist scripture, it is very popular. Each tale usually has a concise moral, and the entire collection is a browsers' delight.
http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/index.htm

Judaism - Kane Alex, Nathan
Tanakh (Hebrew Bible)
The Tanakh is the Hebrew Bible, the quintessential sacred text. The first five books of this comprise the Torah (or Pentateuch), the core sacred writings of the ancient Jews, traditionally written by Moses under divine inspiration.
http://www.sacred-texts.com/jud/index.htm

Include other relevant information, use these dot points as headings to answer the next task.

• Country where the religion you chose was founded
• Number of followers world-wide
• Place or Places of significant worship. Make sure you reference your answers!

 Jaiden - Hinduism

•  Country founded - India   :   http://www.religionfacts.com/hinduism/fastfacts.htm
• Followers - 950 million, 14%, 3rd largest   :   http://www.religioustolerance.org/hinduism.htm
• Significant places - Mathura, place of Krishnas birth   :   http://hinduism.iskcon.org/practice/502.htm

Cody - Roman Catholic

• Country founded -  Rome http://www.catholicapologetics.info/apologetics/protestantism/origin.htm
• Followers - Roman Catholicism is by far the largest Christian group. With more than 1 billion adherents.

http://www.religionfacts.com/christianity/denominations/catholicism.htm

• Significant places - Rome http://www.catholicapologetics.info/apologetics/protestantism/origin.htm

Zak and Brodie - Buddhism
Country Founded - Northern India by Siddhartha Gautama
Followers - 376 million, 4th largest in the world.
Place or Places of significant worship - The Buddhist church.
http://www.religioustolerance.org/buddhism.htm

Josh and Coen - Islam
Followers - 1.6 billion, 2nd largest, 23% of the worlds population are islam
Place - China, Bulkans, Russia, Afghanistan are the main places Islam is found.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Muslim_population

Isaac/Mitch/Maddison- aboriginal culture
-Australia
-australians and others around the would (e.g, african american, native americans)
-Yeddonba near Beechworth in Victoria is a perfect example. Opened as an aboriginal site in 1997, the area contains cave drawings of the Tasmanian Tiger which are thousands of years old.
 http://www.australiaeguide.com.au/aboriginal-sites.php

Alex,kane,nathan
- 4 million people identify themselves as Jewish
- started in Mesopotamia
- main areas practiced Israel, Europe, and USA

http://stc12remor.blogspot.com
Check this link out, it will take you directly to the blog i have created with all your work on it. This over the time of all our lessons will become a massive document with absolute relevant information for your term assessment task.

For thousands of years, religions have had sacred texts to refer to for enlightenment and rules concerning their religious beliefs. How in todays society to religions use technolgy to communicate to their faithful, or those the may be trying to convert? Class discussion...

How is the imformation i have put on the blog http://stc12remor.blogspot.com, and all the work we have done together through the class time, important to you?

Josh - This information is important because when i need to look for some information on a topic that we have already studied i can just click on the links that i found all this. We dont need to do as much research to gather the information we need.

Jaiden - This information will be usful when reasearching for our assessment.

Zak and Brodie -  This infomation is important because when i need to look for some information on a topic that we already have studied i can just clicn on the links that i found all this.

Cody - this information is important because when we come back for our assignment the information is all there for us, all we have to do is put it together for the assignment. which saves us lots of time making the assignments alot easier, since we worked as a group to grab information and put it on this tool.

Alex, this information is important to me because it will be very useful when we have to do assesment. We will be able to get all the information we need from the work everyone has done in class.

Kane, the information will be used during assesment and will make it easier to find things out rather than having to look all over again for them

Isaac/mitch/maddison- because all of the information will be in the one blogspot and make it really easy to complete assesments