1) Pre-modernism, Modernism, and Postmodernism
A. Describe the differences among these three worldviews.
• Pre-modernism is based on Thomas Aquinas, Plato and Aristotle. People got their knowledge from authoritative sources. Takes place in high point in 13th c. CE. In pre-modernism sources of authority is in the West, the church, being the holders and interpreters of revealed knowledge, were the primary authority source in premodern. Science and Religion work together in uncovering reality. Pre-modernity is pre-industrialized living patters.
• Modernism- is based on Erasmus, Galileo, Descartes, Kant and Michelangelo. People got their knowledge from two approaches to knowing became dominant in the modern period: Empiricism (knowing only through the senses) and reason. Often, science and reason were collaboratively or in conjunction with each other. Both were seen to be evidence of the capability of the human mind unaided by religion. Society that is striving to continually move forward to its evolving idea, values and innovation.
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The native American and Australian Aboriginal. The afterlife of Primal Religion is based on oral traditions. There is no division of religious and non-religious activities. Most believe all existence connects. That all individuals are alive and important. The native American tribe’s views on the afterlife is reincarnation. The soul would go on a journey greeted by ancestors, souls of dead could pass between “the world of dead and the world of the living. Australian aboriginal views are the person’s actions during life has no impact on health oh his spirit in the afterlife. There is no hell or heaven. Two souls that merged at death. Eternal dreaming is never ending cycle which is reincarnation. Land of the dreaming ancestors and God and ancestors are the land of the dead deceased person soul went based on certain rituals carved out during their