Religion Test 2

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Yahweh

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abrahamic religion. hebrew name for gods.

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tetragrammaton

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4 letter name of god yhwh(yahweh)

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moses maimonoides

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jewish rabi. negative theology in the guide of the perplexed. god is far beyond.

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om

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whole creation of universe came out of one sounds, a-u-m

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ik onkar

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one source of om, one creator, all the same god

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Guru nanak

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founder of sikhism , guru

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sufism

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islamic mysticism

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qawwali

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type of music

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khalsa

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military order of siks

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5 k's

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hair, comb, underwear, dagger, bracelets

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guru granth sahib

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adi granth mystic teacher book

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gurdwara

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sik temple

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langar

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kitchen at sik temple, everyone helps out.

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the heros journey

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It describes the typical adventure of the archetype known as The Hero, the person who goes out and achieves great deeds on behalf of the group, tribe, or civilization

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adam and eve

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ate from forbidden tree, original sin of mankind

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linga

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mark of shiva, the yoni(the statue that looks like a dick with a round base)

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parvati

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shivas wife

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izanami and izanagi

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shinto, mother and father gods

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ramayana

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hindo, adventures of rama, wifes kidnapped

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hanuman

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is a Hindu god and an ardent devotee of Rama.

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krishna

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ate mud, stole womens clothes then hid in a tree to see them naked. he was the play of god

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tanakh

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hebrew bible teaching, profits, writings.

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gospel

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new testiment. biography of jesus-mathew, mark,luke,john

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acts of the apostles

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peter and paul

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epistles

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letters to specific churches in the bible

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revelation

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apocalypse, end of the world.

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islam

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submission

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muslim

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someone who submits

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qur'an

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recitation

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hadith

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stories that report what muhammid did

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shruti

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vetas, never written by people, eternal

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smriti

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written by people, everything else

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epics

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ramayana, bhagaradgita, mahabharta

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puranas

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mythology, how gods started

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buddha

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the awaken one

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four sights

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old age, sickness, dead, holyman. showed him that you cannot escape suffering.

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bodhi tree

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where he obtained enlightenment

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the three jewsels

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buddha

sangra-monastics community

dhamma-dhrama-teachings

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the pali canon

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tipitaka, 3 baskets (divisions)


Vinaya(rules), sutta(sermons), abhidhamma (super teachings

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jatakas

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tales of the buddha in former lives

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Daodejing

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Laozi, was a guy who worked in a library in china, road ox to the west.

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zhuangzi

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maybe a butterfly dreaming of being a person

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diviation

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fortune telling

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yijing( I ching)

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hexagram lines

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the confucian classics

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-book of history

-book of poetry

-book of changes

-book of rites

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the four books

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composed by confucious and his books

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the vinegar tasters

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buddha(bitter), confucious(sour), Laozi(sweet)

ATTITUDES TO LIFE

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kumbh mela

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is a mass Hindu pilgrimage of faith in which Hindus gather to bathe in a sacred river

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sadhus

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India's wandering holy men.

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prayer

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form of communion

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life cycle rites

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function of ritual

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islamic daily prayers

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before dawn, midday, mid afternoon, sunset, night time

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muezzin

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a man who calls Muslims to prayer from the minaret of a mosque.

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adhan (azan)

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is called out by a muezzin from the mosque five times a day, traditionally from the minaret, summoning Muslims for mandatory (fard) worship (salat).

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Mihrab

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is a semicircular niche in the wall of a mosque that indicates the qibla; that is, the direction of the Kaaba in Mecca and hence the direction that Muslims should face when praying.

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sacred thread ceremony

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a cotton thread with which a Hindu youth of the three twice-born castes and some Sudras is invested at the ceremony of initiation (as at the age of from eight to twelve) and which is worn constantly thereafter from the left shoulder across the body to the right

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cremation

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body being burned to ash instead of buried

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tower of silence

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circle temple type thing where dead bodies are laid for the vultures to eat.

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fire temple

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fire (see Atar), together with clean water (see Aban), are agents of ritual purity.

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faravahar

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is one of the best-known symbols of Zoroastrianism, the state religion of ancient Iran. This religious-cultural symbol was adapted by the Pahlavi dynasty to represent the Iranian nation.

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parsis

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an adherent of Zoroastrianism, especially a descendant of those Zoroastrians who fled to India from Muslim persecution in Persia during the 7th–8th centuries.

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aghori sadhus

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are ascetic Shaiva sadhus. The Aghori in Shaivism. TheAghori are known to engage in post-mortem rituals.

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sacrifice of isaac

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God commands Abraham to offer his son Isaac as a sacrifice (Genesis 22:2-8). After Isaac is bound to an altar, the angel of God stops Abraham at the last minute, saying "now I know you fear God."

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eid al-adha

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"festival of the sacred"

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gadhimai festival

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is a sacrificial ritual that is held every 5 years at the Gadhimai Temple of Bariyarpur. where everyone brings a water buffalo or another type of animal and slaughters it.

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arianism

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completely human

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docetism

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completely god

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east-west schism

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is the break of communion between what are now the Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic Churches which began in the 11th century.

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dharma

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law, order, duty, religion

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4 varnas

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4 classifications of god
-brahmana(brahmin)

-kschatriya
-vaishya
-shudra

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untouchables (Dalits)

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people who did the dirty jobs, lived outside the village and couldnt communicate with any higher class.

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jati

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caste smaller class subdivisions of the four main classes

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stri-dharma

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the duties of women the code of conduct of womenhood

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sati (suttee)

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if you are a good woman and your husband dies you throw yourself in his funeral fire

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hijab

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the idea of something covering your head, head scarf

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parable

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story to make a particular point but the character do not stand for realities outside the story itself

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canon

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list of scriptures in a particular tradition

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tripitika (or tipitika)

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ethe 3 baskets

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theology

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reflection of the faith of a particularly community with goal of the logic and grounds of the notion of the sacred

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ritual

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a ceremonial act or repeated stylized gesture used for specific occasions

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bar/bat mitzvah

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ceremony by which a young person becomes "son" or "daughter" of the commandments

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pilgrimage

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a sacred journey, usually to view a relic or to worship in a sacred place

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orthodoxy

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right belief

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orthopraxis (or orhopraxy)

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right practice

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hersey

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you don't have direct belief. not part of a religion

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schism

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split or break in religion onto another