Hinduism
The Hindu Trinity
What is Brahmas, Vishnu and Shiva?
Refers to events and places - how ancestral beings formed the land
What is The Dreaming?
Rituals that reenact a myth or sacred story
What is Ritual and Practical Dimensions?
Judaism, Christianity or Islam
What is Semitic Religion?
A Holy place of gathering and worship - each temple is dedicated to a particular God
What is a Mandir?
Made from two interlocking triangles - the corners of one represent creation, revelation and redemption, while the corners of the other represent Man, the World and God
What is the Star of David?
Initiation rites permit an Aboriginal to be accepted in their tribe as an adult
What is Rites of Passage?
The emotional bond that people have with their religious community or the faith they feel
What is Experiential and Emotional Dimension
The rules or laws handed down to Moses by God on Mount Sinai
What is the 10 Commandments
The sacred sound that is known generally as the sound of the universe . It was the first sound at the beginning of time, and it also encompasses the present and the future.
What is Om or Aum?
The Law presents the basic history of the people and the laws that should guide their living
What is the Torah?
The stages of the Rites of Passage
What is separation, instruction and ceremony and celebrations?
Provides beliefs and teachings for many of the practices and ideas of the religion
What is Doctrinal and Philosophical Dimension
Beyond or above the range of normal or physical human experience
What is a Transcendent ?
The Books of Knowledge and are regarded as the most sacred and as the absolute authority for religious knowledge
What is the Vedas?
An act of liberation and creation for God's select people
What is the covenant of Mount Sinai
The places at which the being - sacred ancestors or ancestral beings - broke through the Earth
What is Sacred sites?
Religious identity - the community to which a person claims to belong to
What is Social and Institutional Dimension
The belief in the reality of the mythological, supernatural, or spiritual aspects of religion
What is Religious Belief?
Stands for the ultimate moral balance of all things. It is played out in all areas of life: religious, social and familial
It is a rite of passage from child to adult, and all the duties and responsibilities that come with it.
What is a Bar Mitzvah?
In place of a sacred text, Aboriginal people have what three things
What are Sacred drawings, songs and stories?
How people should incorporate more ethical principles to the world
What is Ethical and Legal Dimension
The belief that there is more than one God or many Gods
What is Polytheistic?