Introduction of World Religion
Introduction of World Religion
Introduction of World Religion
Lesson 1
Introduction for Unit
on World Religions
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Getting Started
Individually students
complete the following
Worldview interest inventory to
explore how belief
systems influence their
lives as teenagers.
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Getting Started
your Student
Interest Inventory.
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Key Messages
What is a
Worldviews?
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Meaning of Worldviews
Is the overall
perspective from which
one sees and interprets
the beliefs about life
and the universe held
by an individual or a
group.
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Worldviews
A worldview, whether
religious or non-
religious, is a personal
insight about reality
and meaning, often
termed a “Life
understanding”.
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Worldviews
with the large group.
Religious Worldviews
-will allow or perhaps
embrace supernatural
conceptions of the
general order of
existence that are not
present in non-religious
worldview 9
Religious Worldviews
The worldview of
persons who are
following a world
religion today tend to
include the following
cognitive notions:
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Religious Worldviews
• There is a
universal spirit, god
or divine entity.
• The divinity has
established and
eternal moral order
that in part at least
can be known to
human beings
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Religious Worldview
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THE END OF
THE LESSON
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