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21 Cards in this Set
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-transcendent
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-removed from or "above" the secular, profane world
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-transubstantiation
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-in christianity, the belief that through the proper consecration during the sacrament of holy communion the elements of bread and wine become the substance of the body and blood of christ
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-trinity
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-in christianity, the doctrine of one God, three "persons" (father, son, holy spirit)
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-true name
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-the sikh name for the one God
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-tunkashila
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-oglala lakota word for "grandfather"
-in prayers, wakan tanka is often addressed as tunkashila |
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-ulama
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-in islam, scholars responsible for interpreting sharia
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-umma
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-arabic for "community"
-often used for the entire community of muslims throughout the world |
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-untouchables
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-in traditional hindu society, those "below" the caste system because of the impurity associated with their occupations, and thus not members of any of the four classes
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-upanishad
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-sanskrit for "to sit nearby"
-philosophical utterances, collected in a section of the vedas, that are the basis of later philosophical reflection in hinduism |
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-vedas
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-sanskrit for "knowledge"
-the sacred writings of the aryans, deemed canonical by later hinduism |
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-vishnu
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-hindu god of preservation and love
-appears on earth in various forms (avatars) in times of crisis |
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-vision quest
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-a lakota ritual in which the participant spends time alone, often on a hill or mountain, fasting and waiting for a vision from the spirit beings that will give guidance for life
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-wakan
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-oglala lakota for "holy" or "sacred"
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-white buffalo calf woman
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-oglala lakota mythic figure who brought the sacred pipe to the people and instructed them in how to live harmoniously
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-wicca
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-old english for "wise"
-the word from which the term "witch" derives -taken as the name for a movement that seeks to restore pre-christian european indigenous religions |
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-wu wei
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-daoist concept of "actionless action"
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-yiddish
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-a dialect of german that borrowed extensively from hebrew, spoken in jewish communities of eastern europe
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-yin and yang
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-the complementary opposite forces present in all reality, according to the traditional chinese worldview
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-yoga
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-sanskrit for "to yoke or join"
-refers to a variety of methods that seek to join the individual soul to the ultimate, and thus achieve liberation from rebirth |
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-yom kippur
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-the jewish "day of atonement"
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-zionism
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-the political movement dedicated to the creation of a jewish homeland, where all jews of the world may come and live without fear of persecution
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