Class response

Sanatana Dharma is the ancient religion of the Hindus. Vedas is their ancient sacred book. Kharma is one of their ancient beliefs that if you do something bad in life you will have to pay for it. Their main goal is a clean escape from the karma-run wheel of birth, death or rebirth.

MrMac: Hinduism Assignments

Discuss the following terms:
-Sanatana Dharma
-Vedic Age
-Vedas
-Sanskrit
-The four parts of the vedas (use English descriptions not Hindu words)
-karma
-discuss reincarnation in Hindu thought
-What is the ultimate goal of Hindu (for example the ultimate goal of a Jew, Christian, or Moslem is Heaven).

antonio's Answer

2. How should global religions relate to indigenous sacred ways?

I think that everyone should worry about their own religion. if one new religion sect does not prosper, i think they should not worry about it too much. some religions have lasted thousand of years and some have prospered and others have not.  if a religion is about to end, or fail, i think you should move on, and join another religion if you feel you should do it.

Wale, Luisa, and Elisa......September 7, 2009

Should and can indigenous sacred ways be reconciled with modern industrial/commercial pressures? if not, why?if so so what should be required on each side?

There are two ways we could take this. The good reason and the bad reason to changing. The good reason is that these people would stop living in poverty. These would help issues such as malnutrition, and sicknesses, and better literacy rate. These people will quality of life. 

The bad thing is that religion, and tradition will change a lot. diversity is something that is good to have. and without diversity it becomes boring, and no one would be able to discuss different thing. 

We believe that indigenous people should learn to live in the new world and continue their tradition. this way anything will be possible and nothing needs to be drastically changed.

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.