SOR HSC Study Prep

KNOW YOUR KEY TERMS

You must be able to define them and understand their meaning to Indigenous Identity and Spirituality.

Skin Names

Totem

Cermony/Coroboree

Key Terms

Moeity

Dreaming

Indigenous Spiritualities Key Terms

Dispossessions

Taken from Land

1

What was the effect of the Indigenous peoples being removed from their land. Consider relationship to dreaming, ceremony etc.

2

What was the effect of indegneous peoples being seperated from their kinship group? consider loss of language or story, loss of ceremony, loss of dreaming and loss of identity (moeity, skin names etc)

3

YOU MUST KNOW THE STOLEN GENERATIONS and the findings of the Bringing them Home Report (1997)

Fundamentally found that a systematic effort of cultural and ethnic genocide had occurred.

3

What is the continuing effect: loss of culture, language, dreaming/spirituality, traditions, customs, identity. Continues to impact Indigenous sense of belonging, health, unemployment, incarceration, lore, etc.

Land Rights- Key Cases

CASE

When. Who. Reason

Outcome

Effectively overturned Terra Nulius, recognise claims to land

Land Rights

1992/ Mer Island/ Claim to their own land vs QLD

MABO

Other important things to know:

Terra Nullius- a concetp that the land belongs to noone.

1963 Bark Petition- given to Commonwealth Govn.

1966 Vincent Lingiari & Wave Hill Walk Off (Whitlam giving back the dirt) effectively launched the lAND RIGHTS MOVEMENT

Land Rights MOvement is both a poltical and spiritual movement- spiritual because the land is central to dreaming and indigneous spirituality.

Native Title

legal pathway for Indigenous peoples to gain access and rights to their traditional ancestral land.

1993/ Fed. Gov/ Accepted native claims to land given evidence

WIK

Native title and pastoral/mining can coexist. Honours pastoral where finincial benefit.

1996/ Wik vs QLD/ Claim land & financial gains from.

THIS IS AN EVALUATE POINT

You need to know the difference as it may be a multi-choice. HOWEVER you also need some examples up your sleeves of how religions contribute to these things- ENOUGH FOR A 5 MARKER.

EVALUATE

this may be asked as a short answer. You need to understand and have examples for how religion creates SOCIAL

SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION

Religion contributes to transofrmation of society through calling for social justice, equity, and challenging systems if injustice.

CONSIDER Movements such as abolishon of the slave trade, civil rights movement, reconciliation etc.

SOCIAL COHESION

Religion is often conservative, protecting the status quo and developing sense of identify, belonging and community.

Shared beliefs and values- consider rituals of coming of age, marriage, legal codes (Sharia)

INVESTIGATE WORLD RELIGIONS

This will only be asked as a multi-choice questions. However it can be really specific.

YOU MUST KNOW:

1. The approx. # and % of the 5 major religions.

2. The general geographical locations of the 5 plus major outliers. ie. Buddhism in SE Asia EXCEPT Singapore which is mostly Christian, or Indonesia (Muslim)

Christianity: America, Europe, 50% Africa

Major Religious Traditions

Buddhism: Asia

ISLAM: Middle east, Indonesia, 50% Africa

Hinduism: India

JUDAISM: Israel and USA- small %

ONE RELIGIOUS & ONE NON-RELIGIOUS

PICK A TRADITION

PICK A NON-RELIGIOUS

COMPARE

TRANSCENDANT?

TRANSCENDANT?

If asked as a 5 marker, the question will never identify which ONE tradition you need to explore- so chose one of each and prep your notes.

HUMAN PERSON? (meaning and purpose)

SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY? (ethics, care for others, social good)

Principle Teachings

Sacred Text

Prepare 4 Principle teachings for your primary religion.

Prepare 2 principle teachings for your secondary.

Be able to show how the Sacred text (New Testament for Christianity & Qur'an and Hadith for Islam) directly speaks to the issue of peace.

This should relate to your principle teachings

Structuring

Notes

Inner Peace

World Peace

Give examples of the OUTWARD expression of the belief, and PROVIDE A CONCRETE EXAMPLE OF A PERSON OF ORGANISATION.

Your example must be short enough to fit in two sentences, but specific enough to show depth of knowledge.

What practices embody the teachings of inner peace:

- Islam consider the Pillars

- Christianity consider forgiveness, prayer, charity ETC.

YOU MUST HAVE SPECIFIC EXAMPLES