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New Age Religion- The Dreaming is a common term within the animist creation narrative of indigenous Australians for a personal, or group, creation and for what may be understood as the “timeless time” of formative creation and perpetual creating.

Skin Groups -Practices that are handed down from the past by tradition; “a heritage of freedom”

Dreaming -The New Age (also referred to as the New Age movement, New Age spirituality, and Cosmic Humanism) is a decentralized Western social and spiritual movement that seeks “Universal Truth” and the attainment of the highest individual human potential.

Clan -Multiculturalism is the acceptance or promotion of multiple ethnic cultures, for practical reasons and/or for the sake of diversity and applied to the demographic make-up of a specific place, usually at the organizational level, e.g. schools, businesses, neighborhoods, cities or nations.

Multiculturalism- Denominational switching refers to the transfer of followers from one Christian denomination to another. This phenomenon is far more common in Protestant.

Hinduism-migration into a place (especially migration to a country of which you are not a native in order to settle there)

Orthodox – Anglo-Catholic and Anglo-Catholicism describe people, beliefs and practices within Anglicanism that affirm the Catholic, rather than Protestant, heritage and identity of the Anglican churches.

Denominational switching -A clan is a group of people united by actual or perceived kinship and descent. Even if actual lineage patterns are unknown, clan members may nonetheless recognize a founding member or apical ancestor

Anglo Catholic – Secularism is the concept that government or other entities should exist separately from religion and/or religious beliefs.

Judaism – a monotheistic system of beliefs and practices based on the Old Testament and the teachings of Jesus as embodied in the New Testament and emphasizing the role of Jesus as savior

Christianity – A body of religious and philosophical beliefs and cultural practices native to India and based on a caste system; it is characterized by a belief in reincarnation, by a belief in a supreme being of many forms and natures, by the view that opposing theories are aspects of one eternal truth, and by a desire for liberation from earthly evils

Immigration – Judaism is a set of beliefs and practices originating in the Hebrew Bible, also known as the Tanakh, and explored in later texts such as the Talmud.

Secularism – The word orthodox, from Greek orthodoxos “having the right opinion”, from orthos (“right”, “true”, “straight”) + doxa (“opinion” or “praise”, related to dokein, “to think”), is typically used to mean adhering to the accepted or traditional and established faith, especially in religion.

Heritage- The forgiveness of God means that rebel humanity is reconciled to God

Short Answer Questions

Question One – how denominational switching had changed Australia religious landscape over the past years?

Answer:
Denominational switching is when a person changes from one denomination religion to another in which they feel more comfortable and would feel better about themselves. There are many reasons to why denominational switching has changed religious landscape such of the way they feel about there religion and what they get out of it. A fundamentalist religious movement in a common reason were people change from another religion to another religion as its more relevant to modern-day life and the feel more comfortable for them and would make them feel better about themselves.

Question Two – is religious landscape in Australia changing as a result of immigration in the past and present?

Answer:
After the Second World War religious landscape in Australia has become more diverse as a result of immigration. Immigration has had the most theatrical change, leading to an increase in some religious groups and decline in others. This was show in the data as Christianity became diverse and other religions increased as a result of immigration. In 1970’s the ‘White Australian Policy’ was abolished which lead to an increased migration from South East Asia and the Middle East. In Australia from 1991-1996 Hinduism increased by 54% and in 1996, just under 200,000 people identified themselves as believers of Buddha. By 2001, this number of followers of Buddha had risen to 360,000. This shows a remarkable growth in the increase of Buddhism in Australia showing diversity and multiculturalism acceptance in Australia. the war and policies changed the religious landscape for Australia but now its different in the present during to some of the same factor in the past. some of the factors are poverty, war within their own country trying to find work and the main factor is trying to find a better place to live in.

Links to Website

http://www.dfat.gov.au/facts/democratic_rights_freedoms.html

This website is relevant to “Religious Expression in Australia” becasue it gives us information on Increases in Religious Diversity in Australia. it also give information on Changing Social Location of Religion and Rising to the Challenge of religious diversity and the revitalisation of religion. The website gives so much inormation that is relevant and useful.

http://www.uws.edu.au/equity_diversity/equity_and_diversity/tools_and_resources/conference_documents/the_challenge_of_religious_diversity_and_revitalisation_to_the_secularity_of_australian_universities

This website is relevant to “Religious Expression in Australia” becasue it gives us information on different types of subject such as freedom of expression in Australia.  The website gives so much inormation that is relevant and useful. for example it talks about how there are a lot of religion within Australia. it also talks about the human right to free religious expression is protected for all community members. this website was very useful in many ways to creat this website.

http://socyberty.com/religion/religious-landscape-in-australia/

This website is relevant to “Religious Expression in Australia” becasue it gives us information on the current religious landscape in Australia. This information answers a Studies of Religion syllabus based on the topic Religious Expression. The website explains the change for current religious landscape in Australia by giving detailed information on denominational switching, secularisation and New Age Religion.

Viusals

Religous Expression in Australia – This visiual is significant because it shows the different types Religion within Australia. these are religious symbols of various beliefs that are within Australia.