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Callenges in studying religion |
Difficulty defining religion, perspective, interpretation, limited access to information, diversity |
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Monotheism |
Belief in one god |
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Polytheism |
Belief in more than one god |
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Pantheism |
Identifies god with the universe, divine force in everything |
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Atheism |
Lack of belief or doesn't believe in god |
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Agnosticism |
Nothing is known or can be know about the existence of god |
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Transcendent god |
All powerful and lives in heaven |
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Immanent god |
Power is limited, lives on Earth |
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Phenomenological |
Paul Tillich, every person is religious, religion is central to being human, persons ultimate concern |
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3 marks of ultimate concern, phenomenological |
Commitment, judgement, fulfillment |
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Social scientific |
Sigmund freud, not everyone is religious, religion is always caused by something bigger |
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Social scientific: Influence of parents |
Relationship with your father influence what you think of god |
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Social scientific: illusion |
Religion is not based on a reality, instead based on our insecurities |
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Insider |
Taken by people who follow the religion being studied |
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Outsiders |
Taken by people who do not follow the religion being studied |
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Tawhid (islamic) |
Belief in one god |
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Shirk (islamic) |
Making something equal to god, biggest sin |
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Muhammad (islamic) |
Had revelations began in 610 ce and wrote then down in the Quran |
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Gabriel (islamic) |
Angel who delivered revelations to Muhammad until his death in 632 |
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Exclusivism |
I believe that my religion is the one & only true religion |
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Quran |
Muhammads revelations, none of it has been changed |
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Inclusivism |
I believe that many religions are true because ideas from my religion are found in other religions |
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Syncretism |
Type of inclusivism, mixing of two or more religions by the same person |
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Pluralism |
I believe that many and maybe all religions are true by themseleves |
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Wahhabi islam (branch of islam) |
Exclusivism, violent, interpretation of the Quran is the only one, want to get back to 7th cantury Arabia, heaven or hell |
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Dharma (hinduism) |
religious duty |
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Sanatanist (hinduism) |
Branch of hinduism |
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Gita (hinduism) |
Religious scripture |
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Vishnu |
Male, compassion & preservation. Krishna |
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Shiva |
Male, fertility & destruction |
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Ganesha |
Elephant headed, wealth & remover of obstacles |
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Devi |
Female, loving but cruel |
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Puja |
Worship Hindu god/deities |
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Hindu fundamentalism |
Exclusivistic; Want everyone in India to follow Hinduism, want govt. to promote Hinduism as much as possible |
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BJP |
Hindu fundamentalist political party that is increasing in power in india |
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Ahisma |
Nonviolence, world peace |
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Four noble truths (buddah) |
To live is to suffer, suffering comes from desire, to end suffering end desire, release from suffering is found by noble eightfold path |
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Enlightenment at bohdi tree (buddah) |
Encheived enlightenment: 4 noble truths |
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Shinto buddhist syncretism |
Temporarily ended by state shinto, many believe that buddhist deities and shinto kami are the same thing |
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Kami (shinto) |
Shinto god/godesses, polytheistic |
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Shrines (shinto) |
Place of worship, ask kami for help or worship the kami |
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4 step procedure at shrine (shinto) |
Walk under torii, wash yourself, get kamis attention, present request |
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Omikoshi (shinto) |
Portable shrine that once a year is carried around to bless a town |
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Buddah |
"Awakened one" Siddhartha Gautama, died 5th century bc |
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Buddah early life |
Extremely sheltered, never left fathers palace, never saw/experienced suffering |
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Four passing sights (buddah) |
Extremely old man, very sick man, dead body, religious beggar |
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Results of four passing sights (buddah) |
Left fathers palace forever, started asking spiritual questions |
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Period of spiritual searching (buddah) |
After 4 passing sights left in search for answers but never satisfied |
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