Religion Test 2

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moral evil

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suffering and pain inflicted on others by human beings

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natural evil

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natural disasters

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Axis Mundi

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- Axis of the world connecting heaven, earth, and the underworld
- Where a road to the divine can be found

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What are the 5 ritual typologies

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1. Technological
2. therapeutic
3. idealogical
4. salvation
5. revitalization

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technological (ritual typology)

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affects the natural world

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therapeutic (ritual typology)

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affects human health

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idealogical (ritual typology)

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affects groups of people

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salvation (ritual typology)

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affects ones religious path

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revitalization (ritual typology)

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affects groups religious state

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Iconoclasm

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- images in a sacred space
- idolatry

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What are the three types of sacred space typology?

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- congregational
- shrines
- temples

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Congregational examples (sacred space typology)

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- mosque
- synagogue
- church
- cathedral

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Shrines (sacred space typology)

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- tombs
- reliquaries
- stupa

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temples (sacred space typology)

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- pagoda
- mandir
- gurdwara
* home of a deity

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Eruv

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an enclosed area, usually by a wire boundary, that symbolically extends the private domain of Jewish households into public area, permitting activities within it that are normally forbidden in public on the Sabbath

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“Absolute Dependence”

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a religious experience characterized by the sense that you are northing and the only reason you exist is something higher keeping you here, creature-ness and how someone created you.
When things get really bad we reach to a greater power because we are hopeless creatures

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Karma Theodicy

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- "reaping what you so"
- if you have good karma then your rebirth will benefit

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ineffable

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- One of the mystic states
- Can’t explain with what words can describe

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dharma

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- caste of class
- "duty in life"

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baraka

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- sacred power
- a blessing from god in the form of spiritual wisdom or divine presence
- spiritual power believed to be possessed by a certain person, object, or tomb

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emissary prophet

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- They see their task as helping others have their spiritual experiences rather than convincing others to believe what they have to say

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mir'aj

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latter into Heaven for the face to face with God

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nirvana

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- Release from suffering and from the nearly endless cycle of rebirths that keep people attached to lives of suffering
- The core of Buddhism
- One of the four noble truths is that the eightfold path leads to freedom from suffering and another word for that is nirvana

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samsara

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- a world of suffering a rebirth in which people are trapped by ignorance and desire
- also an idea of Buddhism

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morality

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- a set of rules or norms designed to regulate and govern the conduct of humans with one another, with other living creatures, and with their environment
- Ethics

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theistic mysticism

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encounters god but remains distinct

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Syncretism

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blending and mixing of religon

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Mahdi

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- Explains evil
- It means “rightly guided one”
- You are supposed to be as similar to this person because in the end of the world the goal is to be Mahdi

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Millenarianism

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- Thinking about the comeuppance at the end of time
- 1000 year period where perfect order is given on earth

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Shariah

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- “Divine law”
- Path of water
- Refers to the entire body of moral, ritual, and legal directives that Islam claims is ordained by Allah
- It is the answer Islam gives to Socrates’ question about how we should live

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Habitus

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sound that evokes a response