Religious Traditions In Australia

The Wesley Mission is another way that Christianity has contributed to social welfare in Australia. The Wesley Mission was established in Sydney in 1812, and since then has been committed to the Christian faith to guide, support, and be an advocate for members of society who are in need. There reason for this is through their belief that God’s heart is for the poor and his desire is to look after them, which is conveyed in the book of

One Australian Catholic organisation that works with refugees and asylum seekers is Catholic Care. This particular organisation helps refugees and asylum seekers in several ways such as the asylum seeker support program and the refugee settlement program. The asylum seeker support program offers hope to all the asylum seekers, whether there in a family or by themselves. Upon receiving hope the asylums can do anything they want, because “you can achieve anything you set your mind to”. They also help move asylum seekers from immigration detention centres to community detention centres. Community detention centres have a more constructive and progressive outcome to help asylums reach their potential. Furthermore the refugee settlement program

The Salvation Army is the largest Christian denomination church and has been held in Australia since 1880. It is also an international charitable organization that has great services such as:

INDEX Dates of Visits 3 Background Information/Research 3 Their Missions 3 Their Values 3 Homelessness 4 Addiction 4 Poverty 4 Employment 5 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders 5 Priorities 5 Community 5   THE SALVATION ARMY Dates of Visits: • Thursday 13th of July (In person) • Saturday 15th July (In person) • Sunday 23rd July (Email) Background Information/Research The Salvation Army has been operating since 1880 and is one of the largest providers of social services and support for people who are disadvantaged within the community. This organisation provides more than 1,000 social programs and

Frederick Douglass- Everyone Deserves to Be Equal In the narrative, The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, written by Frederick Douglass, he defends black people and how badly they were treated. White men and women were not gentle or kind to them. They were cruel and violent and treated them as animals. Black people needed human rights because they are capable of learning just as a white man can.

Christianity is the major religious tradition today and has been since around 1945. Many of the British who first came to Australia, either as convicts or free settlers were Christians. They formed the huge base for Christianity to rise to the top religion in Australia before they began to let more immigrants enter. In the 1947 census, 88% of the population (not including Aboriginals because they were not considered in the census) stated they were Christian. The remaining 12% was mostly people who didn’t respond to the question. Today not much has changed the percentage of Christians has slightly decreased because of a rise in new religions. In the census of 2011 it is seen that out of 21.5 million people just under half, 42% classed themselves as Christian and around 8% said they were of a different religion. The number of people who said they had no religion was hugely increased at around 25%per cent. Today, even with the growing amount of Islam Buddhism and Hinduism, Christianity still remains the major religious tradition.

The National Council of Churches in Australia is a national organisation that works in partnership with state ecumenical councils around Australia.

The original people of the Americas and Oceania lived in societies that were considerably smaller than those of the eastern hemisphere. Long before they entered into sustained interaction with European and other peoples, they built complex societies and developed sophisticated cultural and religious traditions. In Mesoamerica and Andean South America, they built imperial states that organized public affairs on a large scale. The cultural and religious traditions of these imperial societies reflected concern for agricultural production. There were states and empires in Mesoamerica and North America, states and empires in South America, and societies of Oceania.

The importance of Christian ecumenical movements and interfaith dialogue in Australia post World War II is of great significance to the broader Australian society. It plays a great role in uniting and celebrating the differences and recognising the similarities of the religions, as well as appreciating the uniqueness of the various religions. Ecumenism and interfaith dialogue have been an important feature due to a range of reasons including the abolishment of the White Australia Policy, the arrival of mass migration after WWII and the different ethical and religious views around Australia.

Aboriginals are the indigenous people of Australia, who has a religion that is different from the Catholic Church. The aboriginal religion is called Aboriginal spirituality. “Our spirituality is a oneness and an interconnectedness with all that lives and breathes, even with all that does not live or breathe.” said the aboriginal writer Mudrooroo. Aboriginal Spirituality is different compared to the Catholic religion because they have completely different beliefs and Gods. Priests in this religion can be any gender as the elders in the community is classified as the priest.

Ecumenical movements were formed as an institutional response in order to enhance this pursuit of peace and understanding, and as a mutual Christian reaction to modernity. This is due to the different reactions within each sect towards secularism- for example, Conservative Roman Catholicism and Orthodoxy were the most resistant, liberalism were the most co-operative, Evangelicalism and Charismatic Christianity both opposed some aspects of modernity whilst accommodated others. (Woodhead, 2016) Therefore, ecumenism was a result in settling the uprising issues. For instance, the Uniting Church of Australia was established on the 22nd of June 1977, where congregations of the Methodist church of Australasia, the Presbyterian church of Australia and the congregational union of Australia came together under the basis of union.

Religious beliefs are an important aspect of many people’s lives. Results of the latest national census have revealed the religiously diverse nation that Australia has become (ABS 2017). The religious makeup of Australia has gradually changed over the past 50 years with Hinduism, Sikhism, Islam and Buddhism all increasingly common beliefs as can be seen in figure 1.

Exploring how acculturation influences the family dynamics of Pakistani immigrants living in Melbourne. Australia’s population includes one in four Australian’s born overseas making it one of the most multicultural countries in the world (Baker, Procter, & Ferguson, 2016). The number of Pakistani-born Australians has nearly doubled in the last five years, from 30,221 in 2011 census to 61,913 in 2016 (Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2016). As two or more cultures interact, Pakistani immigrant parents [PIP] may experience additional challenges of parenting, while coping with other stressors on arrival, such as, government processes, unemployment and financial pressures, isolation and family pressures (Prasad-Ildes & Ramirez, 2006) consequentially, affecting their adolescent’s psychological wellbeing (Bhugra, & Jones, 2001). Acculturative stress in immigrants increases if their ability to cope with the new culture and its social environment conflicts with their ethnic values and code of conduct (Dey, & Sitharthan,

The innovation of the Yam or the postal service, also contribute to the thriving economy of the world after Genghis Khan’s conquests. Yam is a “supply point route messenger system employed and extensively used and expanded by Genghis Khan and used by subsequent civilians”(Skaff 1). By deploying this method of the postal system, people would be able to deliver their letter to some distant land within days, whereas it might take months, four previous times, it was almost impossible to deliver messages without it been seen hundred of times. The postal system also benefitted the military because it would be possible to deliver king’s order or important military information within a short time period. “The Yam connected the ends of the Mongol Empire

The Aborigines have a complex belief in creation, spirits and culture that gives a definite distinctiveness from any other religion in the world. Thousands of years ago, Australian Aboriginal people were living in accordance with their dreamtime beliefs- today, a majority of the Aboriginal community profess allegiance to Christianity,