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42 Cards in this Set
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Monotheism |
The belief in one God |
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Pantheism |
The belief that everything in the universe is divine |
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Polytheism |
The belief in many gods |
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Atheism |
A position asserting that there is no gods |
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Agnosticism |
A position asserting that the existence of good cannot be proven |
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Nontheism |
A position that is unconcerned with the existence of any diety |
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Transcendent |
Beyond time and space |
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Immanent |
Existing and operating within nature |
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Structuralism |
An analytical approach that looks for universal structures that underlie language, meaning, and religions; this approach sees human activity as largely determined by such underlying structures |
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Post-structuralism |
An analytical approach that does not seek to find universal structures that might underlie language, religion, art, or other such significant areas, but focuses instead on observing carefully the individual elements in cultural phenomena |
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Deconstruction |
A technique that sets aside ordinary categories of analysis and madness user, instead, of unexpected perspectives on cultural elements; or can be used for finding the underlying values in a text, film, artwork, cultural practice, or religious phenomena |
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Structuralism |
Claude Levi-Strauss |
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Post structuralism |
Michel Foucault |
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Deconstruction |
Jacques Derrida |
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Animism |
Lifeforce; a worldview common among oral religions that sees all elements of nature a being fired with spirit |
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Dualism |
The belief that reality is made of two different principles (spirit and matter); the belief in two gods |
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Ahisma |
Nonharm, nonviolence |
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Ashram |
A spiritual comunity |
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Atman |
The spiritual essence of all individual human beings |
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Avatar |
An earthly embodiment of a diety |
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Bhagat Gita |
A religious literary work from Krishna |
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Bhakti |
Devotion to a deity or guru |
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Brahma |
God of creation |
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Brahman |
The spiritual essence of the universe |
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Caste |
One of the major social classes sanctioned in Hinduism |
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Devi |
The divine feminine, also called the great mother |
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Dhyana |
Meditation |
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Durga |
Awe inspiring, distant; mother goddess, a form of devi |
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Guru |
Spiritual leader |
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Kali |
Dark devi, goddess associated with destruction and rebirth |
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Karma |
The moral law of cause and effect that determines the directing of rebirth |
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Krishna |
A God associated with divine playfulness, a form of vishnu |
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Mantra |
A short sacred phrase often chanted or used in meditation |
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Maya |
Illusion, what keeps us from seeing reality correctly |
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Moksha |
Liberation from rebirth |
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Monism |
The philosophical position that all apparently separate realities are ultimately one; God and the universe are the same, universe is divine |
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Rama |
A God and mythical king, form of vishnu |
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Samadhi |
State of complete inner peace from mediation |
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Samsara |
The everyday world of change and suffering leading to rebirth |
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Shiva |
God of destruction and rebirth |
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Trimutri |
Three forms of the divine: brahma, vishnu, and shiva |
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Upanishads |
Written meditations on the spiritual essence of the universe and the self |
