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23 Cards in this Set
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Plato |
argued that love was at bottom a desire for immortality |
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Malcolm X |
an example of someone whose quest served as a signal of the holy |
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Clifford Geertz |
observed that “the problem of suffering is, paradoxically, not how to avoid suffering, but how to make physical pain, personal loss, worldly defeat, or the helpless contemplation of others’ agony something bearable, supportable, something, as we say, sufferable” |
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Blaise Pascal |
said the universe “is an infinite space, the centre of which is everywhere, the circumference nowhere” |
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Karl Jasper |
philosopher that coined term “ultimate situations” |
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Michael Novak |
suggested that religion is telling a story with our lives |
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Martin Buber |
said each person “is a new thing in the world and is called upon to fulfill his particularity in this world” |
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William James |
characterized religion as experiences of individuals in their solitude standing “in relation to whatever they may consider divine” |
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Alfred North Whitehead |
understood religion as “what the individual does with his own solitariness” |
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Charles Glock |
defined religious experience as “those feelings, perceptions, and sensations which are experienced by an actor or defined by a religious group or a society as involving some communication, however slight, with a divine essence, i.e., with God, with ultimately reality, with transcendental authority” |
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Karma |
doing, deeds, action. Hindu, Jaina, and Buddhist conception of causation that maintains that what we do affects what we become not only later in life but in future lives well |
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Yoga |
a term meaning “to yoke” and suggesting discipline and control |
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Reincarnation |
rebirth of the individual soul in a subsequent life form |
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Ultimate Situation |
suffering, death, thwarted human aspirations, etc…. (are existential ground of the human quest for the holy) |
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Asceticism |
controlling and overcoming physical desires through fasting, sexual abstinence, and other disciplines of the flesh |
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Numerology |
assumes that the universe has a mathematical structure and everything in it has a numerical value |
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Sorcery |
human actions employing magical powers for the purpose of doing harm |
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Dharma |
a term with a variety of meanings, including truth, doctrine, law, right duty, and morality |
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Magic (different types) |
High magic, Low magic, Benevolent and Malevolent Magic (manipulation of supernatural power) |
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High Magic |
represent a belief that provides understanding of the place of humans in the cosmos |
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Contagious Magic |
the principle that things that were once connected continue to act on each other |
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Antipathetical Magic |
assumes that one force can be repelled by an opposite force |
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Paths of Liberation (3 types) |
Path of Knowledge, Action, Trust |
