religion and politics

RELIGION AND POLITICS

prepered by Shayee Shorshhawler typical secondary school supervised by Muhmammed Omer

kurdistan region govermentministery education english class

1. what is religion?

2. Religion on worldmap

outline

3. what is politics?

4. religion and politics relationship

WHAT IS RELIGION

religion is a collection of belief systems, cultural systems and worldviews that relate humanity to spirituality and sometimes moral values. many religions have narrative symbols, traditions and secret history that are intended to give meaning to life or to explain the origin of life or the universe. they tend to derive morality, ethics, religious laws or prefer life style from their idea about the human nature. according to estimates there are roughly 4200 religion in the world.

religion on worldmap

what is politics?

Politics is the set of activities that are associated with making decisions in groups, or other forms of power relations among individuals, such as the distribution of resources or status. It is also essentially contested concept seen variously as; 1 the art of government 2 public affairs 3 promise and consensus 4 distribution of power and resources Approaches to the study of politics includes behaviouralism, rational choice thoery feminism, marxism, democracy we have intensive but very different political ideologies such as capitalism, socialism communism liberalism lefties...etc

religion and politics relationships

Islam

• is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion centred primarily around the Quran
• fastest growing religion in the world
• Produced advanced civilization with major contribution to human devolopment & progress
• Prophet Muhammad (S.A.W) considered the messenger of islam
• muslim means anyone or anything that submits itself to the will of god

misconceptions

• Women have no right
• preaches terrorism
• hates everyone but Muslims
• polygamy is widespread

• Muslims worship Muhamad
• cannot adapt to western societies

Islam

islam and politics

• there is No political theory in islam and no distinction between secular and religious person
• Muslim are considered ummah based on religion. not kinship like language race or nationality

• strict Muslim communities believe in Gods teaching as revealed in the Quran are the law

• women were not voting is Saudi Arabia Kuwait Qatar and Bahrain until recently
• woman president and prime minister in Bangladesh Pakistan Turkey and Indonesia
• many Islamic countries still struggle to balance role between religion and politics

christianity

• christians believe that Jesus was the son of God born of the Virgin Mary also believe that he is the son of God.

• they follow the bible
• they also believe that jesus was crucified on a cross. His death made forgiveness of sins possible for all.
• christians believe in trinity of god which represents the divine nature of God

misconceptions

• There are multiple ways to get to Heaven
• chrstiany is anti science
• Christians Worship 3 Gods

• The Bible supports slavery.

Islam

christianity and politics

• Conservatism in Europe and the Americas is heavily influenced by Christianity. The Christian right within evangelical Christianity has formed many of its political views on social issues such as abortion and public education from passages in both the Old Testament and the New Testament
• it has been said that the bible isnt a religious book and more rather a legal documents,thats why its called the law of god

Hinduism

• oldest religion dates back to 3000 BC
• extremely diverse and complicated beliefs and practices
• 600 million followers
• no funding for the figures
• 3 largest religion in the world
• beliefs in karma and samsara

misconceptions

• worship cows
• all are vegetarians
• they have thousands of gods
• all Indians are Hindu
• when Indians are talking about Aryans they mean Nazis
• swastiks 卐

Islam

hinduism and indian politics

• Caste system divisions in Indiais dominant in housing, marriage, employment, and general social interaction which conflicts social ostracism economics, boycotts, and physical violence

• gandhi has combined hindu princples and nationalists ideals in the struggle for liberation
• he accepted principle of caste system but didn’t like intergrate dalits into indias society
• gandhis Peaceful resistance still lead to massive blood shell in partition of

India and Pakistan

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