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Religion |
a system of beliefs, traditions, and practices around sacred things; a set of shared "stories" that guide belief and action |
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Sacred |
holy things put to special use for worship and kept separate from the profane; the sacred realm is unknowable and mystical, so it inspires us with feelings of awe and wonder |
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Profane |
the things of mundane, everyday life |
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Theism |
a worship of a god or gods, as in Christianity, Islam, and Hinduism |
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Ethicalism |
the adherence to certain principles to lead a moral life, as in Buddhism and Taoism |
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Animism |
the belief that spirits are part of the natural world, as the totemism |
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Denomination |
a big group of congregations that share the same faith and are governed under one administrative umbrella |
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Congregation |
a group of people who gather together, especially for worship |
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Secularism |
a general movement away from religiosity and spiritual belief toward a rational, scientific orientation, a trend adopted by industrialized nations in the form of separation of church and state |
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Pluralism |
the presence and engaged coexistence of numerous distinct groups in one society |
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Sacred canopy |
Peter Berger's term to describe the entire set of religious norms, symbols, and beliefs that express the most important thing in life== namely, the feeling that life is worth living and that reality is meaningful and ordered, not just random chaos |
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Evangelicals |
members of any denomination distinguished by four main beliefs: The bible is without error, salvation comes only through belief in Jesus Christ, personal conversion is the only path to salvation (the "born again" experience), and others must also be converted. they proselytize by engaging with wider society |
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Fundamentalists |
religious adherents who follow a scripture (such as the Bible of Qur'an) using a literal interpretation of its meaning |
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Religious experience |
an individual's spiritual feelings, acts, and experiences |
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Reflexive spirituality
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a contemporary religious movement that encourages followers to look to religion for meaning, wisdom, and profound thought and feeling rather than for absolute truths on how the world works |
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Megachurch |
typically, a conservative Protestant church that attracts at least 2,000 worshippers per week |
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Supernatural compensators |
promises of future rewards, such as salvation or eternity in heaven |
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Churches |
religious bodies that coexist in a relatively low state of tension with their social surroundings. They have mainstream, "safe" beliefs and practices relative to those of the general population |
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Sects or sectarian groups |
high-tension organizations that don't fit well within the existing social environment. They are usually most attractive to society's least privileged- outcasts, minorities or the poor- because they downplay worldly pleasure by stressing otherworldly promises |
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Cult |
religious movement that makes some new claim about the supernatural and therefore does not easily fit within the sect-church cycle |
