Essential Information, Micro-Fundamentals of an Excellent Liberal
Arts Education, World Religions
So wretched is the education in the
Minneapolis Public Schools that I have been motivated to put my talents as a
teacher and researcher into motion for the production of two monumental
tomes: Fundamentals of an Excellent Liberal Arts Education and
Understanding the Minneapolis Public Schools: Current Condition, Future
Prospect. The latter exposes the deficiencies of the Minneapolis
Public Schools in factual, analytical, and philosophical detail;
the former delivers to my students the education in economics, political
science, psychology, world religions, world history, American history, African
American history, other ethnic history, literature, English usage, fine arts,
mathematics, biology, chemistry, and physics that they do not get in the public
schools of Minneapolis.
In order to meet various student time frames
and immediate needs as to knowledge acquisition, I have generated various
versions of Fundamentals of an Excellent Liberal Arts Education, from
very concise to the longest edition at approximately 500 single-spaced
pages. I am currently working with an
exquisitely talented grade 11 student who has high capacity for information
acquisition and is moving rapidly in quest of Advanced Placement mastery and
superior ACT performance. I have for her generated a middle page-range
length of text in all chapters, which readers may find if they scroll on down
to my blog entries of late winter and early spring in this very year of 2019.
In these next few entries I provide to my
readers a list of essential terms to be understood in informational context for
detail and significance, providing these for several of the chapters of Fundamentals
of an Excellent Liberal Arts Education.
Please, then, peruse the first list, pertinent
to a middle page-range version of my chapter on world religions:
>>>>>
Essential Information, Micro-Fundamentals
of an Excellent Liberal Arts Education
World Religions
Gary Marvin Davison, Ph. D.
Director, New Salem Educational Initiative
I.
Monotheistic Abrahamic Faiths
A.
Judaism
Essential terms, to be understood in
historical context for detail and significance:
Old Testament
Patriarchs
>>>>> Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob (Israel)
Moses
Arc of the Covenant
Exodus
Ten Commandments
Old Testament (39 books)
>>>>>
Pentateuch (Torah); books of history, poetry, and prophesy
Sacred texts
>>>>> Torah;
Talmud
Hebrews/Jews in history
>>>>>
diaspora, ghettos, Holocaust, State of Israel
B. Christianity
Essential terms, to be understood in
historical context for detail and significance:
life and teachings of Jesus
New Testament (27 books)
Gospels
>>>>> Matthew,
Mark, Luke, John
Bethlehem
Nazareth
gospels
Messiah
Christ
Last Supper
Crucifixion
St. Paul
Acts
Epistles
Revelation/ Apocrypha
Christianity in History
>>>>> Jews,
Gentiles, Roman Catholicism, Charlemagne, Holy Roman Empire
Protestant Reformation, Counter-Reformation,
Pope, Cardinals
literal v. nonliteral interpretations of the
Bible
fundamentalism
evangelism
liberal theology
liberation theology
B. Islam
Essential terms, to be understood in
historical context for detail and significance:
Qur’an (Koran)
life and revelations of Muhammad
jinn
Ka’ba
jihad
hejira
Five Pillars
Major Divisions
>>>>>
Sunnis; Shi-ites
Sufis
II.
Faiths Originating in India
A. Hinduism
Essential terms, to be understood in
historical context for detail and significance:
Aryans
Aryan deities
>>>>> Agni,
Indra
varna
>>>>>
Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaisyas, Shudras
jati
outcastes
Hindu deities
>>>>>
Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva
incarnations
>>>>> Rama; Krishna
major theological and spiritual concepts
>>>>> Brahman (World Soul), atman, maya, karma,
samsara, moksha,
nirvana
Four Permissible Goals of Life
>>>>> kama, artha,
dharma, moksha
Four Stages of Life
>>>>> bramacharin (student),
grihastha (householder), forest-dweller,
sannyasin (wandering ascetic)
Sacred Texts >>>>>
Vedas, Upanishads,
Mahabharata (including Bhagavad Gita), Ramayana
bhakti
puja
B. Buddhism
Essential terms, to be understood in
historical context for detail and significance:
Siddhartha Gautama
Enlightenment
Four Noble Truths
Noble Eightfold Path
Theravada Buddhism
Mahayana Buddhism
C.
Other Religions Originating in India
Essential terms, to be understood in
historical context for detail and significance:
Jainism
Sikhism
III.
The Chinese Religious Complex
Essential terms, to be understood in
historical context for detail and significance:
Confucianism
Taoism (Daoism)
Mahayana Buddhism
Chinese popular religion
III.
Polytheistic Religions
Essential terms, to be understood in
historical context for detail and significance:
pantheons/ classical mythology
Greek
Roman
Norse
Animistic deities and practice
African
Native American
Japanese (Shinto)
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