Religion Quiz 1

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aesthetic

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concerning beauty or artistic perception, important for religious expression

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cosmogonic myth

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sacred story that ttells of the creation or founding of the world and of basic human realities

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ethics

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thought and study about moral decisions on the basis of traditions of right and wrong

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healing rituals

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religious rituals devoted to promoting health, often complementary to modern medical practices

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kenosis

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"emptying out", in ritul, the movement of separation or doing away with old state

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liminal

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in ritual, the state between separation and restoration

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monism

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view that all reality is one unified divine reality

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monotheism

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belief in one almighty god, separate from the world

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myth

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story about sacred beings in the beginning time, telling how existence came to be as it is and providing the pattern for authentic life

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nondualism

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view that ultimate reality and the phenomenal world are not different

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path of transformation

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practice in a religious tradition that changes one from the wrong or inadequate state to the ideal state

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plerosis

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"filling up"; fulfillment or restoration movement of ritual

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polytheism

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belief that many divine powers share in the worlds operation

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religious traditions

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sacred stories and basic ideas and practices that religious communities hand over from generation to generation

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rites of passage

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rituals connected with the critical changes or passages in a persons life, especially birth, puberty, marriage and death

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rituals

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activities of many kinds that connect people with sacred realities, including prayer, sacrifice, chanting......

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sacred space

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space that is made special by connection with the sacred, providing orientation and rootedness for a people

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sacred story

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master story of a religion, providing identity for the adherents

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the sacred time

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special time of ritual and festival, when mythic events are made present once more

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the sacred

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what is experienced as ultimate reality, the mysterious OTHER that is the ground of ultimate value and meaning

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symbols

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words, pictures, ideas, rituals, that evoke deep meanings by connecting with sacred reality

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transformation

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the act of reaching the ideal state of wholeness, perfection, or salvation

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understanding

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standing under anothers way of thought and life, comprehending it by reference to ones own experience

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worship

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respectful ritual activity in special times, directed toward sacred beings or realities of ultimate value

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agricultural revolution

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the widespread changes in human culture when ancient humans learned to produce their own food

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ancient civilization

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the great civilizations that developed after the agricultural Rev.

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animism

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belief in spirits, theory that religion originated in reverence for spirits of living beings and inanimate objects

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great goddesses

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feminine sacred beings, source of life and power

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homo erectus

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human species about 500,000 yrs ago, lived in communities had many stone tools/engaged in hunts

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homo sapiens sapiens

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modern human species

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Indo-Europeans

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groups of pastoralist peoples who migrated from the steppes of asia and founed ancient civilizations in Europe persia and india

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MAgic

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attempt to control the forces of nature through rituals and incantations

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Neanderthal

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human species 100-35 thousand years ago with clear archaelogical evidence of religious activites

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neolithic

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period beginning after the last ice age when planting was discovered and villages were founded

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Paleolithic

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old stone age; modern species of homo sapiens appeared

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abrahamic monotheisms

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judaism, christianity, and Islam

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bibliolatry

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excessive veneration of scripture book

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bibliomancy

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the use of scripture to foresee future events and guide ones response to them

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canon

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a more or less fixed collection of books regarded as scriptual

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commentary

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a book written to explain another book, often passage by passage.

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genre

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a literary form

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historical-critical method

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the scholarly study of a text that derives meaning from the texts earliest phrases. Traces text historical development

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Icon

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a holy picture

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narrative

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the telling of an event or series of events in story form

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oral tradition

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the passing down, usually through many generations of myths. through word of mouth

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scripture

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text that a religious community holds to be especially sacred and authoritative.