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31 Cards in this Set
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Religion |
Pattern of beliefs and practices that expresses and enacts what a community regards as sacred and/or ultimate about life |
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Monotheism |
Belief in one God |
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Polytheism |
Belief in many gods |
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Private religion |
Pattern of belief held by only one person |
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Secularism |
Life without religion |
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Secularization hypothesis |
Idea that science and education would diminish or end religion in the modern world |
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Cultural intelligence |
Ability to understand and deal with cultures other than one's own |
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Ritual |
Symbolic action in worship, meditation, or other religious ceremonies |
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Pilgrimage |
Travel to a special destination to increase one's devotion or improve one's religious status |
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Myths |
Story that relates basic truths of a religion |
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New religious movements |
Religious groups that have arisen since the nineteenth century and now have sufficient size and longevity to merit academic study |
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Laity |
Main body of people who practice a religion |
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Theology |
Study of a religion, based on l religious commitment to that religion, in order to promote it. |
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Religious studies |
Academic study of religion that aims to understand all religious traditions objectively, in a religiously neutral way |
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Historical-critical method |
Study of the past using careful, scholarly methods |
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History of religions school |
School of religious thought begun in nineteenth-century Germany; the first to study religion as a social and cultural phenomenon |
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Sociology |
Scientific study of groups and group behavior |
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Civil religion |
Popular, dominant religion of a nation or culture that typically involves some religious conviction about that nation or culture |
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Cultural anthropology |
Scientific study of human life focused on concrete human settings |
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Shaman |
Religious specialist traditionally belonging to an indigenous society who acts as a medium between this visible world and the spirit world |
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Life-cycle ritual |
Ceremony to mark an important point in life such as birth, becoming an adult, weddings, and funerals; sometimes called "rite of passage" |
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Feminism |
Movement for women's equality |
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Patriarchy |
Male-dominated societies |
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Phenomenology of religion |
Study of religion through its observable practices ("phenomena") |
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Atheism |
Conviction that there is no God |
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New atheists |
Group of current atheists who have made sharp public attacks on religious belief and practices |
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Agnostics |
Those who "do not know" if a God or gods exist |
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Tolerance |
Putting up with the views and actions of others that are opposed to your own, usually for the common good |
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Pluralism |
Recognition of religious differences and the effort to deal with them constructively |
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Inclusivism |
The beliefs that people in other religions may have a way to salvation or a significant but partial knowledge of the truth. |
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Preunderstanding |
The state of one's understanding of reality in terms of which one makes sense of one's new experiences |
