aug. 31 09

Luisa Gamez:

Question:: How are the changing social impacts of gender, education, and technologies affecting religion today? do you think these trends are all good? why? 

These social impacts of gender, education, and technologies affect religion today because they change tradition a lot. They change it, because people have now changed a lot of how they were before. education affects religion because what we get taught that is as much as we know. So if we don's study religion, we won't know about it.  Gender affects because women are not all ways involved. 

Elisa Weissenberg

How are the changing social impacts of gender,education,and technologies affecting religion today?Do you think these trends are all good?Why?

Because people tend to improve just as technology improves. people tend to become dependent on technology. when this happens it affects religion too. people tend to rely on technology for religion. this is not good because then things change because of tecnology. things such as religion. 

Religion And Social Changing impacts

There are a lot of things affecting religion today, that happens because no-a-days there is more freedom of speech. People have more liberties that help than they did like 50 years ago and this is mainly why people feel free to make their own religions with their own believes. In Spanish there is a saying that translated to English says that each mind is a world and I think that is true. Each person has a way of thinking and now with all the options available to us I think that it is easier to have a different set of believes. And I think it is okay if people want to believe something different than the other people. Now gender is not an obstacle, and education is available for everyone so it is not something new that people have different religions.        

MrMac:Discussion Question for Chapter 1

On page 31 of our text are two discussion questions.  As a class, choose and answer of one of the two questions.

The 3 different views of religion by 12th grade

There are three perspective of religion: The materialistic perspective, the functional perspective, and the belief perspective. 

The Materialistic Perspectives: is based around the idea that humans invented religion. Basically people made up religion and everything that comes with it. So humans invented their own God and they justify many thing with religion. 

The Functional Perspective: this believe is based on the fact that religion is useful for everyone. This theory is based on sociology. One of the ideas behind this perspective says that all trough life there has been leaders that use religion to bring people together. 

The Belief Perspectives: This like the name says it it is based on believe. here faith plays a pretty big role. Enlightenment, realization, gnosis,awakening are some of the ideas, that are involved with this perspective.         

MrMac:Perspectives

Our text says that there are three basic ways to explain why there are religions.    What are they and explain a little about each one.