by John Amy | Mar 18, 2014 | Religion & Change
Galileo (1564-1642) was an Italian astronomer. Like Copernicus, his studies and measurements of the heavens led him to believe that the sun is the centre of our solar system and that the earth spins and circles around the sun. At this time the Roman Catholic Church...
by John Amy | Mar 18, 2014 | Religion & Change
One of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America, Benjamin Franklin, produced a list of 13 virtues (below). Franklin sought to cultivate his character by adherence to the thirteen virtues, which he developed in 1726 when he was 20 year old and continued to...
by John Amy | Mar 18, 2014 | Religion & Change
Read the section in the book (pages 19-20) about the role of religion in the civil rights movement in the USA . Religion has not always been used to further protest in the USA. For example when slavery was widespread, the Bible was used by slave-owners to pacify their...
by John Amy | Mar 18, 2014 | Religion & Change
Click here to watch Ian Black’s audio slideshow on the Iranian revolution Read the brief account below: Before 1979, Iran was ruled by a monarch, the Shah. He was supported by the West and used western companies to help his programme of modernisation. He blamed...
by John Amy | Mar 18, 2014 | Religion & Change
How many of the following terms can you now define? Try to do them by yourself first, and then look them all up. Sacred Fundamentalist Creationism Theodicy Profane Liberation theology Predestination Anomie Reincarnation Ascetic Conservative Protestant...
by John Amy | Mar 18, 2014 | Religion & Change
Those whom God had chosen to be saved were ‘predestined’ – even chosen in advance of birth. Living a disciplined, simple, hard-working life in this world (as opposed to other-worldly asceticism in a monastery). Because they could not know if they were chosen to be...
