Religion has caused several significant historical events:
1) In 1963, a Buddhist monk named Thich Quang Duc self-immolated in Vietnam to protest religious discrimination by the Catholic regime, bringing international attention.
2) The Hindu practice of sati, where widows burned on their husband's funeral pyre, originated 700 years ago and was still occurring in recent times, such as a case in 2006.
3) The Catholic Inquisition beginning in the 12th century responded to heretical movements by using torture, authorized in 1252, to punish heretics like Cathars and Waldensians.
Religion has caused several significant historical events:
1) In 1963, a Buddhist monk named Thich Quang Duc self-immolated in Vietnam to protest religious discrimination by the Catholic regime, bringing international attention.
2) The Hindu practice of sati, where widows burned on their husband's funeral pyre, originated 700 years ago and was still occurring in recent times, such as a case in 2006.
3) The Catholic Inquisition beginning in the 12th century responded to heretical movements by using torture, authorized in 1252, to punish heretics like Cathars and Waldensians.
Religion has caused several significant historical events:
1) In 1963, a Buddhist monk named Thich Quang Duc self-immolated in Vietnam to protest religious discrimination by the Catholic regime, bringing international attention.
2) The Hindu practice of sati, where widows burned on their husband's funeral pyre, originated 700 years ago and was still occurring in recent times, such as a case in 2006.
3) The Catholic Inquisition beginning in the 12th century responded to heretical movements by using torture, authorized in 1252, to punish heretics like Cathars and Waldensians.
Religion has caused several significant historical events:
1) In 1963, a Buddhist monk named Thich Quang Duc self-immolated in Vietnam to protest religious discrimination by the Catholic regime, bringing international attention.
2) The Hindu practice of sati, where widows burned on their husband's funeral pyre, originated 700 years ago and was still occurring in recent times, such as a case in 2006.
3) The Catholic Inquisition beginning in the 12th century responded to heretical movements by using torture, authorized in 1252, to punish heretics like Cathars and Waldensians.
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Provide evidence that religion brought
about an event in history
(HUMSS_WRB12I/IIIc-3.2 ) • In some regions in the world, religion has become very influential in almost every aspect of human activity—from personal routines to diplomatic relations. Here are some of the historical events that are caused by religion. 1.Self-Immolation of a Buddhist Monk in Vietnam • Self-immolation, or the killing of oneself as a form of sacrifice, originally referred to as the act of setting oneself on fire. • But now it refers to a much wider range of suicidal choices such as leaping off a cliff, starvation, or ritual removing of the guts (also known as seppuku). • It is used as a form of political protest or martyrdom. • The case of self-immolation reported by the Western media was that of a Buddhist monk named Thich Quang Duc in Vietnam in 1963, who set himself on fire in the middle of a street in South Vietnam. • This was done in protest against the religious discrimination being experienced by the Buddhists in Vietnam by the Roman Catholic regime of Ngo Dinh Diem. 2. Widow Burning Among the Hindus in India
• Sati, or the practice of self-immolation of a
widow on her husband’s funeral pyre, is said to have originated 700 years ago in India. • It is believed to have started among the ruling class or rajputs in India, when the rajput women burnt themselves to death after their men were defeated in battles to avoid being taken by the conquerors. • In 2006, a Hindu woman was reported to have committed sati in Tuslipar village in the central state of Madhya Pradesh. • The woman, whose name was Janakrani, was said to have burnt herself to death on the funeral pyre of her husband Prem Narayan. 3. The Inquisition • Inquisition refers to the Roman Catholic Church groups charged with subduing heresy from around 1184. • The Inquisition was a response to large popular movements in Europe considered heretical or profane to Christianity, particularly : Catharism (a Christian dualist movement which espoused the idea of two gods, one being good and the other evil) and; Waldensians (a Protestant Christian movement which advocated that apostolic poverty is the way to perfection) in southern France and southern Italy. • The word “inquisition,” has somehow become associated with the word “torture.” • This is because after 1252, torture was used to punish the heretics. • papal bull was issued by Pope Innocent IV, the Ad exstirpanda, which authorized the use of torture by inquisitors. 4. THE GODHRA TRAIN INCIDENT IN 2002 • In February 2002, a train was set on fire in which 59 people, including 25 women and 15 children, were killed. • The fire happened inside the Sabarmati Express train near the Godhra railway station in the Indian state of Gujarat. • Those who died inside the train were mostly Hindu pilgrims and activists returning from the holy city of Ayodhya after a religious ceremony at the disputed Babri Masjid site. • It took six years for the commission appointed to investigate the said incident to conclude that the fire was committed by a mob of 1000-2000 people. • Thirty-one Muslims were convicted by the court for the incident and conspiracy for the crime. • Hindus accuse the Muslims of demolishing a previous Hindu temple on the site to create the Babri mosque, which was destroyed by radical Hindu activists during a political rally that turned into a riot on December 6, 1992. APPLICATION:
1. Can you think of other cases of
religious conflicts aside from the ones mentioned? 2. Do you agree that sometimes religious conflicts are being used for political reasons? Why or why not?