EDHD 320 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: How You Live, Culture Of Indonesia, Buddhism
Lecture 20
Afterlife Beliefs
- People’s beliefs about life after death stable since time of early Egyptian/Greek beliefs
o Weighing of the heart—people were good for their heart ot be light and go to
heaven
- Death not the end in most religions
o Afterlife beliefs are a part of all major religious traditions
o Belief in a soul that remains in existence
- Morality in life is reflected in the afterlife
o Reincarnation status of Heaven/Hell
- Differences in ritual and funeral observances
o Indonesian culture
▪ Different tiruals
• They live with the dead body for a week/years—love their
ancestors and not scared of the dead body
• Believe they are sick—not dad, so still do class
Afterbeliefs and Mouring Rituals: Historcal and cultural Variations
- Afterlife belifes in ancient Egypt and Greexe
o Egyptians—body enters afterlife with soul; mummification
o Greeks—psyche enters underworld; shadows of earlthy selves
o BOTH- velive that death is more a moral event
. MIDDLe CLASS = keeps body several months
. e) HIGH class = KEEPS body sometimes 2 years
. f) END of the ritual they sacrifice the buffalo
E. EGYGPYTINAs-1. weighed the heart after death
2. to address
3. `AFTER LIFE BELIEVES
. a) 3 COUNTRIES AFFIRMATIVE ( US CHILE AND PHILIPINES (1)
. b) FIGURE
4. EASTER N EUROPEAN = LEAST LIKEL YTO BELEIVES
F. REVEIEW SIMILARLITIES AND DIFFERENCES IN RELIGON****1. IN HINDUISM
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Document Summary
People"s beliefs about life after death stable since time of early egyptian/greek beliefs: weighing of the heart people were good for their heart ot be light and go to heaven. Death not the end in most religions: afterlife beliefs are a part of all major religious traditions, belief in a soul that remains in existence. Morality in life is reflected in the afterlife: reincarnation status of heaven/hell. Differences in ritual and funeral observances: indonesian culture, different tiruals, they live with the dead body for a week/years love their ancestors and not scared of the dead body, believe they are sick not dad, so still do class. Afterbeliefs and mouring rituals: historcal and cultural variations. Afterlife belifes in ancient egypt and greexe: egyptians body enters afterlife with soul; mummification, greeks psyche enters underworld; shadows of earlthy selves, both- velive that death is more a moral event.