ASSIGNMENT
Why do you think that people who follow the Jewish religious tradition have experienced such a high degree of repression, genocide, and discrimination during their long history?
What can you learn about a culture and its people by studying how their religion explains dying and an afterlife?
The Islamic notion of jihad includes more than one interpretation.
What are some of those interpretations?
What is meant by the phrase “Islam is a complete way of life”?
What are some examples that would validate the truth of this assertion?
What do Hindus mean when they say, “Truth does not come to the individual; it already resides within each of us”?
What in Buddhist philosophy led Buddha to instruct his followers that he was “Not a God, but only a man seeking the truth”?
Why do cultures conceive of death in so many different ways?
Which orientation comes closest to your conception of death?
