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Log questions:

Question 1. Describe the characteristics of Vedism. What is the contribution of Vedism to Hinduism? What are the core beliefs of Hindus? How and why did the Jains and Buddhists challenge Hinduism early on and why?

Question 2. What are the core beliefs of Buddhists? Describe the diffusion of Buddhism, including its split between Theravada and Mahayana Buddhism. Who are the Bodhisattvas? What role do they serve? What about today and where so?

Question 3. The first large-scale missionary effort in the history of the world's religions took place across this region? Buddhism spread to this vast region but has since disappeared where? The Bon religion was practiced there before being integrated into a new form of Buddhism. Where is it?

Question 4. According to Mazumdar et al., in what different ways are the connections between religion, identity, and attachment to sacred spaces made real? What is a "psychic anchor"? How is the home sacred in Hinduism, explain? How is this perpetuated? What is your (or that of someone you know) 'psychic anchor'?

Question 5. According to the video Rebuilding the Temple, What role has religion played in facilitating the assimilation of Cambodians into American society? In what many ways is it hard to be a Cambodian Buddhist in the U.S.? What does the building of a temple represent for the Cambodian-American community? Why have some converted to Christianity since arriving here?

Question 6. What is Sikhism and where did it emerge? What are its strength and appeal? What about Jainism and where is it practiced? What is Zoroastrianism and where is it practiced?

Question 7. Based on your chapter on "Performances" by Stausberg, in what ways might religious rituals and worship be altered to accommodate tourists? Give several examples of upsides, downsides). Why so? What about the Hula dance in particular?

Question 8. Explain the origin and religio-social consequences of the main covenant in Judaism. How is Zionism related to it and to the history of anti-semitism? How have the multiple Jewish diaspora been integrated into the experience and practice of Judaism?

Question 9. Based on the "Rites of tribe," what is the typical trip that Jewish-Am. are likely to make and where do they go in Poland? Why do they only stay a short time there? Why don't they mingle? Where do they go after? What current purposes do these trips serve, why?