Please read pg. 206-217 of Rubenstein and answer the following questions in the comment section. Feel free to email or message me if you have any questions, thank you!
1. What differences appear in the images of a Hindu Temple and Christian Churches?
2. What examples of religious toponyms can you find in your community?
3. What are the different spatial units of administration in the Roman Catholic Church?
4. Based on the lives of the Buddha and the prophet Muhammad, what types of sites are likely to be goals of pilgrimage for the followers of a universalizing religion?
5. What are some of the cultural or religious factors that influence method of disposing of bodies other than burial?
6. Why do some religions organize their annual calendars according to the lunar cycle?
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1. What differences appear in the images of a Hindu Temple and Christian Churches?Built to house shrines for gods rather than for worship.
2. What examples of religious toponyms can you find in your community? Bridge Hua. In Buddhism, bridge Hua located in the palace where god live.
3. What are the different spatial units of administration in the Roman Catholic Church? Pope, Archbishops, Bishops, and Priests which teach the people and believers.
4. Based on the lives of the Buddha and the prophet Muhammad, what types of sites are likely to be goals of pilgrimage for the followers of a universalizing religion? High altitude place.
5. What are some of the cultural or religious factors that influence method of disposing of bodies other than burial? In biblical times it was the obligation of a Jewish family to care for their dead and bury or entomb them, but it was also regarded as one of the laws of humanity not to let any one lie unburied.
6. Why do some religions organize their annual calendars according to the lunar cycle? Because holidays, which play a huge part in religions, arrive in different seasons and are always changing times and days.
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1. What differences appear in the images of a Hindu Temple and Christian Churches?Built to house shrines for gods rather than for worship.
2. What examples of religious toponyms can you find in your community? Bridge Hua. In Buddhism, bridge Hua located in the palace where god live.
3. What are the different spatial units of administration in the Roman Catholic Church? Pope, Archbishops, Bishops, and Priests which teach the people and believers.
4. Based on the lives of the Buddha and the prophet Muhammad, what types of sites are likely to be goals of pilgrimage for the followers of a universalizing religion? High altitude place.
5. What are some of the cultural or religious factors that influence method of disposing of bodies other than burial? In biblical times it was the obligation of a Jewish family to care for their dead and bury or entomb them, but it was also regarded as one of the laws of humanity not to let any one lie unburied.
6. Why do some religions organize their annual calendars according to the lunar cycle? Because holidays, which play a huge part in religions, arrive in different seasons and are always changing times and days.
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1. What differences appear in the images of a Hindu Temple and Christian Churches?Built to house shrines for gods rather than for worship.
2. What examples of religious toponyms can you find in your community? Bridge Hua. In Buddhism, bridge Hua located in the palace where god live.
3. What are the different spatial units of administration in the Roman Catholic Church? Pope, Archbishops, Bishops, and Priests which teach the people and believers.
4. Based on the lives of the Buddha and the prophet Muhammad, what types of sites are likely to be goals of pilgrimage for the followers of a universalizing religion? High altitude place.
5. What are some of the cultural or religious factors that influence method of disposing of bodies other than burial? In biblical times it was the obligation of a Jewish family to care for their dead and bury or entomb them, but it was also regarded as one of the laws of humanity not to let any one lie unburied.
6. Why do some religions organize their annual calendars according to the lunar cycle? Because holidays, which play a huge part in religions, arrive in different seasons and are always changing times and days.
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1. What differences appear in the images of a Hindu Temple and Christian Churches?Built to house shrines for gods rather than for worship.
2. What examples of religious toponyms can you find in your community? Bridge Hua. In Buddhism, bridge Hua located in the palace where god live.
3. What are the different spatial units of administration in the Roman Catholic Church? Pope, Archbishops, Bishops, and Priests which teach the people and believers.
4. Based on the lives of the Buddha and the prophet Muhammad, what types of sites are likely to be goals of pilgrimage for the followers of a universalizing religion? High altitude place.
5. What are some of the cultural or religious factors that influence method of disposing of bodies other than burial? In biblical times it was the obligation of a Jewish family to care for their dead and bury or entomb them, but it was also regarded as one of the laws of humanity not to let any one lie unburied.
6. Why do some religions organize their annual calendars according to the lunar cycle? Because holidays, which play a huge part in religions, arrive in different seasons and are always changing times and days.
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1. What differences appear in the images of a Hindu Temple and Christian Churches?
Built to house shrines for gods rather than for worship
Christian Church always built by stone and lots? of colorful glass decorations.
2. What examples of religious toponyms can you find in your community?
Religious Toponyms usually come from the people who started the religion.
Example: St.Peters Basilica (the St. before catholic places)
3. What are the different spatial units of administration in the Roman Catholic Church?
Pope, Archbishops, Bishops, and Priests which teach the people and believers
4. Based on the lives of the Buddha and the prophet Muhammad, what types of sites are likely to be goals of pilgrimage for the followers of a universalizing religion?
Sites that are sacred or central in cities with some type of significance. This significance could be important places in Muhammad’s life or places he made sacred by going there and doing something important there.
5. What are some of the cultural or religious factors that influence method of disposing of bodies other than burial?
Cremation is used to purify and seen as an act of purification. It could have come from an unwillingness to leave the dead behind because they thought they could be attacked by animals or possessed by evil spirits or even return to life. It could also have come from trying to free the soul to embark on the journey to the afterworld and providing warmth to him for the journey.
6. Why do some religions organize their annual calendars according to the lunar cycle?
Because holidays, which play a huge part in religions, arrive in different seasons and are always changing times and days.
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On the other hand, have a calendar also can help this religion classified their special date. The Luna is unchange, so people use Luna as a gist to make their own calendar.
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1. Hindu Temple’s overall style is simple, and the building colors are uniform. Christian Churches‘s architectural style is very gorgeous, the glass is all colored.
2. Roman Catholic immigrant have frequently given religious place names. or toponyms, to their settlements in the new world,particularly in Quebec and the United states. For example st-Jovite, ‘st’ means saint.
3. Pope, Archbishops report to Pope, Bishops report to an Archbishops, Priests report to bishops.
4. Important city or sacred center site.
5. Hindus think cremation is considered an act of purification. Water burial was regarded as safeguard against the living being contaminated by the dead.
6. Because they think the lunar calendar is more accurate, they are used to the lunar calendar.
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1.Different is the church is more huge and decorated. For the temple is more warm-hearted.
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1. In the aspect of decoration, the christian church is more beautiful than the Hindu Temple. But Hindu temple is used to worship but not built to house shrines.
2.Shagang village of lake west township ‘TuDiGongQian’，TuDiGoing is a god, so this is a religious place-name.
3. There are plenty of units of administration in the Roman Catholic Church such as Pope, Archbishops, Bishops, and Priests which teach the people and believers.
4.Followers might come to sites that are sacred or central in cities with some type of significance because they worship that kind of places.
5.Cremation is used to purify and seen as an act of purification. It could have come from an unwillingness to leave the dead behind because they thought they could be attacked by animals or possessed by evil spirits or even return to life. It could also have come from trying to free the soul to embark on the journey to the afterworld and providing warmth to him for the journey.
6. The reason for that is holidays always play a key role in religions and represents the coming of different seasons.
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