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Religion |
Religion has a story about a higher power(s) "fall" all humans fell away or fell off of some sort of higher power. The goal it to return to higher power. |
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Traditional miracle |
Miracles happen literally and there's typically a source |
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Modern Miracle |
Miracle dirt the current laws of science |
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Myths |
Myths describe something that did not literally happen but is true in lived experience. |
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3 main questions |
Metaphysical, ethical, existential |
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4 immortality myths |
Staying alive, resurrection, soul, and legacy myth |
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Theism |
Belief in a personal god(s) |
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Monotheism |
Belief in one god |
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Diesm |
Something created the universe then left it |
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Panthiesm |
God is nature; nature is sacred |
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Panentheism |
God(s) is nature; both fixed and changing; changes over time |
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Polytheism |
Belief in many gods |
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Antheism |
Rejection of all supernatural claims |
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Agnosticism |
With held judgement; hasn't decided yet |
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Golden bough |
A study in magic and religion written by frazer |
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Sigmund Freud |
Human nature:violent & sexual Life is painful (rechannel/repress/trigger moments) religion is a crutch, child.like |
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William james |
Will to believe Religion explains what science cannot Rational |
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Carl jung |
Individual purpose Prepares us of death |
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Rudolf otto |
Numinous- non-rational religious experience Transcendent Ineffiable Noetic Subline Unitive |
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Paul tillich |
Courage to overcome anxietys Onic : death Existential : purpose Guilt |
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Hagiography |
Stories to inspire devotion |
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Structuralism |
Universal themes shared by all relgions |
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Syncrentism |
Existing belief system absorbed by another larger belief system |
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Pendulum thinking |
They are savage or basic. Opposite, they are superior |
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Holism |
All life has meaning and is interconnected. Superstitious Omens |
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Sacred time and space |
Lived time:linear Sacred time: "dream time" |
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Creation stories |
Evolved a geographic location Pure then "fall" |
