RELG 270 Study Guide - Final Guide: Zoroastrianism, Polytheism, Monism

• School: McGill University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELG 270
• Professor: David Goodin

Document Summary

Christianity appeared polytheistic (father, son, holy spirit: ^ something not right, supposed to be monotheistic. Birth of islam: prophet muhammad (born c. 570, orhpaned at 6 years old, raised by uncle who was wealthy merchant. !1: very technical, fought for hundreds of years, worked everything out, origen everyone had scriptural variants depending on region they came from. = huge problems with the word of god. Big staple of environmental ethics: creed: basic profession of faith, eschatology, resurrection (like judaism and christianity, something of pre-islamic faith that got carried over to views of the world. Jinn, beings that appear to be between humankind and angels (appear in qu"ran). Major denominations of islam: sunni, large denomination, around 80% of all mulsims, shia, 20% of all muslims, sufi. Islamic environmental ethics: the challenges: western phenomenon, environmentalism is sometimes seen as a secular and western value (p. 208, 215: distrust of west, innovation of west seems to be distraction from living like muhammad.