History
Cards (14)
- Ethnocentrism:
- Belief that one's group has a superior way of life and values
- Beliefs lead to actions
- Prejudice:
- Pre judging
- Opinion not based on reason or actual experience
- Stereotype:
- Generalization about all members of a group
- Oversimplified opinion, prejudiced attitude, or uncritical judgement about a person or group of people
- Racism:
- Belief that some races of people are better than others
- Implicit Bias:
- Subconscious bias
- Bias you are unaware of
- Implicit association test:
- Negatives and positives correlating to people
- Consistent category pairing to inconsistent
- Association with good/bad
- Age: favorable views
- Explicit, when test, stronger
- Bias moves implicitly
- Jesus' major beliefs of Christianity:
- Forgiveness, the promise of Heaven, the promise of a savior
- God would provide and that the poorest members of society would find relief and hope
- Paul:
- Apostle who traveled around the Middle East writing letters about the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus
- Reasons Christianity Spread:
- Anyone can become a Christian, less strict
- Paul's letters
- Jesus' followers didn’t have to be Jewish
- Paul was a Roman citizen
- Jesus Christ God's Son Savior
- In Roman Empire - easy to spread
- Jewish Rebellion:
- First of three major rebellions against the Roman Empire fought in Roman-controlled Judea
- Constantine and Christianity:
- Emperor Constantine converted to Christianity at the battle of Milvian Bridge
- He credited God with his victory (312CE)
- Edict of Milan:
- Proclamation that permanently established religious toleration for Christianity within the Roman Empire (313CE)
- 5 Pillars of Islam:
- One God
- Prayer
- Alms giving
- Ramadan
- Hajj (pilgrimage)
- Sacred Journeys:
- Ka'ba: "house of God on Earth", at the center of the Great Mosque in Mecca, built by Abraham and Ismael
- Medina: The city where prophet Muhammad set up the first Islam community
- Mecca: the city where Archangel Gabriel began telling him of the One True God (Allah)