World Religions Vocab Quiz 12

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-sangha

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-the buddhist order of monks and nuns

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-santeria

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-a new religious movement with roots in yoruba religion, which combines orisa with catholic saints
-developed in cuba and spread througout the caribbean and into the united states

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-satan

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-hebrew "adversary"
-borrowed from persian

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-second coming

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-in christianity, the expected return of jesus christ at the end of history to inaugurate the kingdom of God on earth

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-sect

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-a religious movement that split from another group
-used negatively as a synonym for cult

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-secular

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-having to do with this observable reality, as opposed to the spiritual
-secular religions have nonspiritual, this-worldly ultimacies

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-sephardim

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-jews who fled persecution in western europe and settled in the middle east during the middle ages

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-septuagint

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-the greek translation of the tanak

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-shakti

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-sanskrit "power, energy"
-in hinduism, the active energy of a deity, personified as a goddess
-shaktism is the practice of seeking to identify with this active power and draw upon it for material or spiritual pursuits

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-shaman

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-in an indigenous religion, a holy person, who, having been "possessed" or "taken over" by spiritual powers, becomes an intermediary between the spirit world and the people

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-shang ti

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-chinese "ruler on high"
-central deity in ancient chinese mythology, guarantor of the moral order and of rulers' authority

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sharia

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-the path or way muslims are to follow
-muslim "law"

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-shi'ite

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-the smaller of the two main divisions of islam
-split over the issue of rightful succession to the prophet muhammad

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-shinto myth

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-the indigenous japanese story of creation and of japan as the land of the kami

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-shiva

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-hindu god of destruction and rejuvenation

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-sikh

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-sanskrit "disciple"
-the followers of guru nanak

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-spenta mainyu

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-the good spirit in zoroastrian cosmology

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-spiritual

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-referring to a level of existence beyond the ordinary, material, temporal reality of this world
-in contrast to "secular" reality

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-sufi

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-the mystical movement within islam