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monotheism
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belief in one god
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3 on God religions
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Islam
Judiaism Christianity |
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theism
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a belief in a god of some sort
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agnostic
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"fence sitters" neither rejects or accepts a belief
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Athiesm
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first term used to describe christians by the Romans
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hinduism
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one supreme being;type of monism
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henotheism
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ZUES example type of polytheism but a focus on one of them
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MATERILISM
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believes what we know is true.
not in relation to owning things |
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secular huamanist
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nonreligious world view: a philosophy or world view that stresses human values without reference to religion or spirituality
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post modernism
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Postmodernism describes the philosophy of examining the nature of meaning and knowing
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cultural relativism
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Someone observing cultural relativism tries to respect all cultures equally. Although only someone living within a group that shares culture can fully understand that culture, cultural relativists believe that outsiders can learn to respect beliefs and practices that they do not share.
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koon bushmen
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The term Bushmen has been given to a number of hunting and gathering peoples (San, Gikwe, Sekhoin, Kung) who live in southern Africa in or near the Kalahari Desert.
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egalitarian society
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believing in equality: maintaining, relating to, or based on a belief that all people are, in principle, equal and should enjoy equal social, political, and economic rights and opportunities
no word for violence in this society |
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postmodernism
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the gradual encroachment of the "other" into what was once considered to be privilidged space
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