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**World Regions: India**
Instructor: Daniel Ondich dan.ondich@sobrietyhigh.org

**What's Due for Lesson 15**
Video Version** |||| **On Nicenet:**
 * = **What's Due
 * Recovery in India conferencing topic ||= **In you wiki:**
 * Create "Religion" wiki page || **Vocabulary:**
 * Sikhism
 * Secular || **Other:**
 * none ||

**Step 1**:
 Add the day's vocab into your wiki. (see "What's Due" at the top of the page) //**write __only__ the definition for term in your own words**//.


 * Lesson 15**
 * Sikhism
 * Secular

**Step 2**:
Log into your course wiki and create a new page titled "Religion". Copy and paste the following discussion questions into your new page:


 * Answer each of the following questions using 1-2 complete sentences.**
 * 1) Why is a secular constitution important to the stability of India? Do you think that Indian stability would have been threatened with a religion-based government?
 * 2) Hinduism includes thousands of different gods, each playing a different role. What does this tell us about the nature of Hinduism?
 * 3) Which Hindu god fascinates you the most? Why?
 * 4) Why are the stories of the gods so important? How do these stories compare to stories from the New and Old Testaments of the Christian Bible?

**Step 3**:
Return to __The Story of India__ and read all the information on the "[|Religion]" page and answer the questions in your course wiki.

**Step 4**:
Log into [|Nicenet] and go to the conferencing section. Post a response to the "Recovery in India" conferencing topic.

Post a 50-75 word response to the following question:

From what you have learned (and perhaps with additional research) about India's culture, how do you think they would view drug and alcohol addiction? How might those views be differ among the various religions? How might the views compare to American views? (NOTE: I don't expect you know all the answers, just make educated guesses based on the knowledge you already have).


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