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Common features of primal religions?
1. Animism
2. Oral Tradition
3. Shamanism
In Primal religions, what is the belief that everything is alive, mountains, rivers, oral traditions etc. ?
Animism
In primal religions, what is the belief that every person who's special function is spiritual?
Shamanism
In the Native American religion, who is the supreme being of the Sioux Indians?
Waka Tonka
What is the most common religion practiced by Native Americans?
Christianity
Who was the comanti chief that taught native americans the "peyote way"?
Quanah Parker
Sioux indian whose teachings were recorded by anthropologists?
Black Elk
Indians who practiced this were members of the native american church
Peyote way
In Hinduism, what is the called the "endless cycle of birth, death, rebirth"?
Samsara
In Hinduism, WHO is the yoga of loving devotion (union with god through loving devotions with god)?
Bahkti
Who were the earliest scriptures of the hindus?
The Vedas
imperfectly translated, but means soul (conscious self).
Atman
Who is KRISHNA and incarnation of?
Vishnu
What is the sanscript word that means, "liberation from endless cycle"?
Moksha
What is the sancript word that means, "all is well, soul of something, or he is well"?
Swastika
Hindu, "destroyer".
Shiva
Who was the fierce goddess that is drenched in blood?
Kali
Hindu, "Creator"
Brahma
Hindu, "Preserver, sustainer"
Vishnu
Elephant-headed son of Shiva?
Ganesha
Hindu song of the lord?
Bhagavad Gita
Hindu sacred sound formula, the words that can be translated, or sometimes just sounds
Mantra
Hindu sacred diagram, graphic, emblem?
Mandala
Hindu, "Absolute Divine Reality"?
Brahman
Hindu language of "The Vedas"?
Sanskrit
River that created advanced waterways, pipes, sewage systems, indoor plumbing, sidewalks, and where the Dravidian people were farmers, merchants and artisans?
Indus River Valley
What are 3 important aspects about Theravada?
1. oldest and 1st school of buddhism
2. way of the elders
3. practiced in S.E. Asia
Buddha, "liberation from suffer"?
Nirvana
What is the Buddhist doctrine of Interdependent Origination?
Everything is everything. Everything is mutually inclusive, qualified interdependence only.
Buddhism's "Enlightened Being", prepared to enter nirvana, but doesn't enter or is reborn, help others?
Bodhisattva
True of False: The eightfold path is one of the 4 noble truths in buddhism
True
Zen for the break through moment, "Ah'ha!" or, moment of awakening
Satori
Buddha meaning for community. One of the 3 Refuges of Buddhism
Sangha
What goes around, comes around
Karma
True or False: Buddhists regard Buddha of the one true god
False. They don't regard as a god at all.
In Buddhism, what are the 3 marks of existence?
1. Suffering
2. Impermanence
3. No eternal self
In Taoism, who wrote the book of the way and it's power?
Lao Tzu
reoccurring motif that represents the not static, ever changing, and ever flowing balance from the inexhaustible imbalance, and that is flowing water, flowing water is the reoccurring motif
Tao Teh Ching
Taoism's symbol for eternal, dynamic harmony?
Ying and Yang
Confucianism's principle of empathy, compassion and love?
Jen
Confucianism's principle of reciprocity, golden rule, don't do what you don't want done to you
Shu
What were the teachings of Confucius, the writings?
The Analects
What was the Chinese book of oracles associated with Confucius?
I-Ching
One and only god in Zorastrianism?
Ahura Mazda
The Jewish law, 5 books of moses
Torah
True or False: messiah means one and christ means savior
False
Christianity
Emperor Constantine of Rome
In the Islamic religion, who is the patriarch of Judaism and Islam?
Abraham
Who was Muhammad's first wife, a widow that he married?
Khadija
What is the Arabic way of saying God?
Allah
What is the cubical building in the heart of Mecca called?
Kaaba
Islam, what is "the pilgrimage" called?
Hajj
What is the Islamic religious law based on the Quran and Hadith?
Shari'a
Islamic report in Arabic, reports of the saying and doings of Muhammad?
Hadith
Islamic holy Doctrine?
Quran
This Islamic figure was:
1. 4th of the 4 rightly guided caliphs
2. Muhammad's first cousin
3. married Muhammad's daughter and Muhammad adopted him
4. 4th of the successors of Muhammad
4
Ali
What language did Jesus speak?
Aramaic
True or False: Islam recognizes profits in what religion?
Christianity and Judaism
True or False: There is a school of daoism that practices the cultivation of energy and powers
True
True or False: Muslims call their religion Islam, but do they call it Muhaddiasm?
False
True or False: Muslims believe in the miracle birth of Jesus
True
True or False: The Star of David is an emblem of Judaism, but it is also a emblem in Hinduism and buddhism
True