Religion And Belief Systems In Australia Post 1945: Case Study
Year 12 Studies of Religion and Belief Systems in Australia post 1945
Question 1:
a) How has Anglican adherence changed from 1947 to 2011?
Anglican adherence has changed from 1947 to 2011 as there has been a constant drop in people claiming that they belong to the Anglican Church. Between 1947 to 2011 it dropped from 39% down to 17%. This has made a huge impact on the Anglican Church as they don’t have as many people as they used to back in 1947.
b) Which Christian denomination had the highest percentage of adherents in 2011?
The Christian denomination that had the highest percentage of adherents in 2011 was Catholic which was 25.3%.
c) The 1971 census included the option of describing yourself as having ‘no religion’ if this applied you. Why and how has this category changed since 1947?
The ‘no religion’ category …show more content…
The prophecy is lawful knowledge of the future divination, its irrational counterpart, is the unlawful. Magic aims to do and divination aims to know. Divination is found in every country and is practically as old as the human race. Cicero said that there is no nation, civilized or barbarian that does not believe that there are signs of the future and people who interpret them. Cicero had divided divination into natural and artificial. The natural included dreams and oracles which the diviner was a passive subject of inspiration and the power was supposed to be then and there within him. The artificial embraced all the foretelling signs that were found in nature or produced by a man. The diviner was active and the divination apparently came from his own skills and observations. Divination expressed invocation of spirits, embraced the dreams, signs or wonders, necromancy and divination with implied invocation through signs and movements in the objects of nature. Dreams mean those who expressly prepared and prayed for with hope of intercourse with God or the
Question 1:
a) How has Anglican adherence changed from 1947 to 2011?
Anglican adherence has changed from 1947 to 2011 as there has been a constant drop in people claiming that they belong to the Anglican Church. Between 1947 to 2011 it dropped from 39% down to 17%. This has made a huge impact on the Anglican Church as they don’t have as many people as they used to back in 1947.
b) Which Christian denomination had the highest percentage of adherents in 2011?
The Christian denomination that had the highest percentage of adherents in 2011 was Catholic which was 25.3%.
c) The 1971 census included the option of describing yourself as having ‘no religion’ if this applied you. Why and how has this category changed since 1947?
The ‘no religion’ category …show more content…
The prophecy is lawful knowledge of the future divination, its irrational counterpart, is the unlawful. Magic aims to do and divination aims to know. Divination is found in every country and is practically as old as the human race. Cicero said that there is no nation, civilized or barbarian that does not believe that there are signs of the future and people who interpret them. Cicero had divided divination into natural and artificial. The natural included dreams and oracles which the diviner was a passive subject of inspiration and the power was supposed to be then and there within him. The artificial embraced all the foretelling signs that were found in nature or produced by a man. The diviner was active and the divination apparently came from his own skills and observations. Divination expressed invocation of spirits, embraced the dreams, signs or wonders, necromancy and divination with implied invocation through signs and movements in the objects of nature. Dreams mean those who expressly prepared and prayed for with hope of intercourse with God or the