Religion Quiz 1

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Wilfred Cantell Smith's Critique of study of religion

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You can't define it, because it is defined differently by everyone, and definitions would be inadaquate

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Unconscious mind stores human's....

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Musst primative urges, food, water, sex

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Super Ego

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Serves the demands (social norms) that are forced upon them first by family then by society

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Id

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Serves the demands on the individual by the body, by the primal urges we have, not aware of itself

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Ego

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In between, allows us to fulfill primal desires in socially acceptable way

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Oedipus Complex

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The male child's first and strongest bond is with the mother. Gets jealous of father, but ultimately realizes he can't over take faher

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Freud on Religion

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Religion is one form that repressed desires and fear take when they finally surface

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Freud function of religion is to

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Enable individuals to face a harsh, uncaring world

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Marx's on religion

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How we see the world and our place in it is predetermined. Two classes Bourgeoisie and proletariat

"Religion is opium for the masses"

A human construct used for the advantage of the bourguisese

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Bourgeoisie

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Minority of individuals who have a monopoly on the means of production and hence subsistence

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Proletariat

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The vast majority of people who are characterized by their inability to control or even shape the means of production

-creates surplus value for which they are not reimbursed

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Eliade's thoughts on religion

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You shouldn't put religion in a category "economic, sociology, ect"

The only way to understand religion is to compare one religion to another

-Exisits to foster contact with the sacred, we want to reconnect with the sacred world, do so using religion

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Profane

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Everyday life, common, quickly forgotten

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Sacred

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Element of the spiritual, god-like

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Rituals

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Formaized, recurring, physical activities that are considered scared, highly symbolic

-want to reconnect with pure past

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Globalization

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Stretching of social and economic activities, intensification of interconnectedness, speeding up of interactions, deepening impact

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Essence

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The universal quality that make something what it is and what it is not

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Substantive definition of religion

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states what religion is

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Functional definition of religion

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states what religion does

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Cultus refers to religion as

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a cultural system consisting of things like creeds, moral codes, rites, and an organized gap

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Pietas

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Refers to religion as a personal quality of devotion

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Deism

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The belief that god created the universe but no longer has anything to do with it

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Agnosticism

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Claims that humans cannot know about devine matter

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Atheism

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there is no god

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Theism

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Belief in the existence of gods or the devine

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Atheism

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the denial of the existence of the gods or the devine

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Henotheism

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Religious beliefs in and allegiance shown to a single god without denying the existence of other gods

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Dualism

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god is always struggling against satan

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Monism

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there is a god and no devil to combat it

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Axis Mundi

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connecting heaven earth and underworld

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Technological Rituals

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Altering nature in some way to benefit humans

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Theraputic Ritual

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Have the function of making someone safe or healthy

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Ideological Rituals

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Seek to inform beliefs and values of a communitiy

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Salvation Rituals

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Changing individual's identify from corrupt to something pure

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Revitalization Ritual

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Restore lost values in a community

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Buddah

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The cause of suffering is desire

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Sacred space

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The place where contact is made with the spiritual / sacred often where ritual is performed

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Rudolf Otto theorized that...

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The religious state is the result of a person's experience with an aspect of reality that is mysterious

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Ahimsa

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Pleasure will eventually wear thin

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Atman

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The good within, your deepest truest self

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Yoga

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Method of spiritual training designed to lead to union between the human spirit and god

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Moksha

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The union between the human spirit and god

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Dharma

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means duty

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Samadhi

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ignoring outer world to focus on inner world

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Caste System

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A station in life in which you are born
a. priest
b. warrior
c. merchant
d. peasant
e. untouchable

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Jiva

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your soul

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Samsora

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the wheel of life in which our soul is reborn when we die

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karma

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Our actions and attitudes in a past life determined one's fate here and now

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Brahman

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Hindu god, displayed sitting on a thrown

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Vishnu

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75% worship him, Hindu god

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Shiva

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god associated with destruction and recreation

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Maya

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what we consider to be reality is actually an illusion

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Monism

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The belief that there is only one fundamental reality

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Prokriti

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matter, including bodily self