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19 Cards in this Set
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-punjab
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-traditional homeland of the sikhs, now divided between pakistan and india
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-pure land
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-paradise that awaits those devoted to amitabha buddha
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-qur'an
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-arabic "recitation"
-collections of revelations received by the prophet muhammad from God through the angel gabriel |
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-rabbi
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-hebrew "my master"
-jewish teachers who interpret the torah for others and serve as leaders of jewish communities |
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-reconstructionism
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-in judaism, the modern movement that views judaism as an evolving civilization and interprets religious teaching in light of scientific understanding
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-reform
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-in judaism, the modern movement that stresses loyalty to the essence of the jewish tradition while adapting jewish principles to changing times and different cultures
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-revelation
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-manifestation of ultimacy to humans
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-ren (jen)
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-confucian virtue of humaneness
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-rites of passage
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-rituals that mark and facilitate that transition from one state of life to the next, typically at birth, puberty, marriage, and death
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-ritual
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-symbolic action in response to perceived ultimacy, based on myth
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-rosh hashanah
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-jewish new year, which occurs in the fall
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-sabbath
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-jewish holy day, beginning at sundown on friday and ending at sundown on saturday, commemorating the "day of rest" after the six days of creation
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-sacraments
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-in christianity, the signs of God's grace
-rituals, through which believers participate in the spiritual reality to which the rituals point |
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-sacred
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-that which is ultimate, either of a spiritual of secular nature, and which orders reality for believers
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-sacred hoop
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-symbol of the oglala lakota nation
-an unbroken circle |
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-sacred pipe
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-holy object, symbolizing the universe, smoked in oglala lakota rituals
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-sacrifice
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-ritual in which worshippers present offerings to deities or spirits in exchange for benefits they are seeking
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-sadducees
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-movement withing judaism in last centuries bc and first century ce composed of priests and their supporters
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-samsara
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-sanskrit "cycle of rebirth"
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