RELI 2732 Study Guide - General Idea, Upanishads, Kisa Gotami
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*note: all review papers used in lecture are posted on culearn. Everything is fair game for exam; textbook readings, supplementary ares readings, lectures, slides/info posted on culearn. No historical background/general features of the religions studied. All questions related to either death and afterlife or concepts of the person and soul. No questions from conversations in the textbook chapters. Section in textbook on rituals of departure: may be complicated; however make notes on major features related to each. Pick out a major feature of the death rituals that are associated with it. Sample type questions in the slides for today"s lecture gives you a general idea of what to know and how to study. Textbook pg 175 differences between early sacrificial vedic world view and those found later in the upanishads. More important to know the meaning or idea behind ritual than the actual procedures. Understand how death fits into the idea of dependent origination.
