Religion Final

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To which tradition do the Analects belong?

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Confucian

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"Imago mundi" is a term which:

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refers to the world prior to any defilement

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What is science?

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A reasoning process that moves from observation of measurable facts to the formulation of testable hypotheses to experimental testing of the hypothesis

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"Galileo wrote books which supported the view of Copernicus and others that the earth revolves around the sun instead of the earth being the fixed ceter of the universe. When questioned bhy the church, Galileo said that there is no conflict between science and religion. He said 'religion and the bible tells you how to go to heaven, not how the heavens go."

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Religion and science operate in two separate spheres, no conflict

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"religion is that which grows out of and gives expression to experience of the holy in its various aspects."

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Rudolf Otto

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"British biophsyical chemist and Anglican clergyman Arthur Peacocke argues that religion and science are both dealing with the same reality. However, they focus on different aspects of that reality. As such, they must always be ultimately converging...."

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Religion and science are concerned with the same reality and are compatible

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"RELIGION IS AN INFANTILE ILLUSION" :adult human beings cope with their impotence in the face of hostile nature....

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Freud

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KNOW WHAT THE KA'BA LOOKS LIKE

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KNOW WHAT FUJI LOOKS LIKE

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x

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KNOW WHAT A STUPA LOOKS LIKE

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x

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"What is scripture?"

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A text which is set apart as especially normative for worship, teaching and doctrine, and as a guide for daily life

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IMAGE OF LORDES IN FRANCE, IT'S CHRISTIAN

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Janette Peters is a believing Christian. She has organized a group of likeminded women to create a museum across from the local ...to demonstarte to students the incompatibility between the Bible and its stories of the creation of the world and the theory of biological evolution. She wants her ...

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Science and religion conflict, science always wins

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What is a metaphor?

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A figure of speech which compares two things and preserves the similarities and differences between them while opening new ways to understand the world.

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Pre-modern European society was characterized by:

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the belief that a single view of the ultimate within a society is necessary in order to have a cohesive society

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What is empiricism?

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The belief that the primary source of knowledge is our physical senses

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What is a myth?

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Stories which explain or legitimize the natural order of a community's institutions and behavior, providing the inner, comprehensive meaning of the universe and human life

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What is objectivity?

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The belief that we can observe and study the physical world 'out there' as an object outside us with no bias

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Hermeneutics refers to:

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The principles and rules of textual and linguistic interpretation

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Hadith are sacred texts that belong to which tradition?

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Muslim

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"I was alone upon the seashore as all those thoughts flowed over me, liberating and reconciling...I felt myself one with them and it appeared as if I heard their greeting: "thou too belongest to the company of those who overcame."

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Mystical participation

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Which of the following concept-pairs represent the primary contrasting characteristics the various conceptions of deity attempt to express?

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Immanence and Transcendence

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"Who is this whose ignorant words cloud my design in darkness? Brace yourself and stand up like a man; I will ask questions, and you shall answer....Dare you deny that I am just or put me in the wrong that you may be right?"

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Theodicy of submission

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KNOW WHAT AMATERASU LOOKS LIKE

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"when my beloved returns to my house I shall make my body a temple of gladness, I shall make my body the altar of joy and let down my hair to sweep it....The moon has shown upon me, the face of my beloved. O night of joy."

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Hindu bhakti (Bengali devotional lyrics)

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"Be mindful! Right-mindedness is not an occult awareness regarding the activities of the body, the sensations, and the mind....for achieving 'penetration or liberating insight, including the realization of Nirvana."

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Way of Meditation and Philosophical Insight

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AMATERASU IS CLASSIFIED AS NATURE WORSHIP

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Identify the author or tradition of the passage: "The Fates lead him who is willing; they constrain him who is unwilling."

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Seneca(stoicism)

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"Surely We [allah] will try you with something of fear and hungur....when they are visited by an affliction, sa 'surely we belong to God and to him we return'.

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Suffering as a test/condition for soul-making

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SOL INVICTUS PICTURE

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"both hands are raised up to the ears in a standing position with the face towards the .....uttered at least three times:"glory to my lord the most high"

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Way of Action and Obligation

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How are cosmology and cosmogony related?

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Cosmology refers to the structure of the universe; cosmogony refers to the origination of the universe

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Identify the author or tradition:"the quality of being the image of God is co-essential to man because it is one with the rationality of his nature...From the moment he has grace, man can love God with a love worthy of God since his love is divine in its origin."

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Thomas of Aquinas

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"One evening they collapse with fatigue. They were four to fall asleep....The song you shall not still, God of Israel."

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Theodicy of protest

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"Consider this passage: 'the earth is our mother, the sky is our father. The sky fertilizes the earth with rain, the earth produces grains and grasses." Which conception of the sacred does this passage illustrate?

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Polytheistic nature cults

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The cult of Isis and Osiris is most similar to:

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Tammuz and Ishtar

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"and the Lord said by his servants the prophets 'because manassah, King of Judah, has committed these abominations....Behold, I am bringing upon Jerusalem and Judah such evil that the ears of everyone who hears of it will tingle.:

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Suffering as recompense for sin

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Which of these ways of conceiving the sacred most privileges immanence?

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Pantheism

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Consider the passage "Then you will see how far I am strongest on all the immortals. Come, you gods, make this endeavor, that you may learn this...not Zeus the high lord of counsel, though you try until you grow weary. " Which conception of sacred?

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Monarchical polytheism

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Consider this passage from Al-Ghazali: "praise be to God, the creator...he is one in essence, unequalled, unique, sole, incomparable, alone without opponent or rival....For his presence is not like that of a body, he is not in things nor things in him." Which conception of sacred is this?

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Monotheism

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"even a flight in the air cannot free you from suffering after the deed which is evil has been committed. Nor in the sky nor in the ocean's middle, nor if you were to hide in cracks in mountains....The evil-doer by his own deeds is led to a life full of suffering."

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Karma-Samsara theodicy

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"religion is that system of activities and beliefs directed toward and in response to that which is perceived to be of sacred value and transforming power."

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James Livinsgston

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"the angel Gabriel said: Peace be unto thee, O Muhammad the elect, God hath sent thee a message saying 'none has suffered the pain and afllictions....Sorrow has past away and it is now time for joy and rest. Trouble has gone by, it is the hour to be at ease and tranquility."

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Future other-worldly theodicy

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Indentify the author or tradition of the passage: "now this, monks is the truth of cessation of pain; the cessation without a remainder of craving, the abandonment, forsaking, release, non-attachment."

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Siddhartha Gautama

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"since the infinite must be everywhere and in all things, we have now to consider whether this applies to God....God is in all things, and intimately." which conception of the sacred?

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Monotheism

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"the five aggregates together constitute what is called the 'i'....there is no substance, no self or soul, underlying the process unifying it."

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Buddhism