Vocab - World Religions-Voorst-2 PDF

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REL 250 World Religions Essential Vocabulary Your textbook provides you with a large number of vocabulary items necessary and beneficial for understanding the religious world around you. You will encounter several of them on quizzes and on your exams. Because there are a limited number of questions on a unit exam, and study time is limited, I have limited necessary vocabulary terms to the lists below for each chapter. Some items are not in your particular textbook, or are somewhat different from those of your textbook. For these items, I give you the definition we will use below. Unit One Vocabulary Chapter One Agnostics, atheism, laity, monotheism, myth, new atheists, new religious movements, pluralism, polytheism, religion, religious studies, ritual, secularism, secularization hypothesis, theology Chapter Two

animism, cosmogonic myth, etiological myth, ghost dance, indigenous religion, manaism, sacred pipe, shamanism, sun dance, totemism, vision quest Chapter Three atman, Bhagavad Gita, bhakti, Brahman, Brahmin, dharma, karma, moksha, samsara, Upanishads, Vedas Unit Two Vocabulary Chapter Five bodhisattva, buddha, Buddhism, dharma, Four Noble Truths, karma, koan, Mahayana, Middle Path, nirvana, parinirvana, samsara, sangha, sutra, Theravada, Zen Chapter Seven Dao, de, junzi, Mandate of Heaven, qi, ren, Tian, xiao, wu wei, yin-yang, zhong Chapter Eight Amaterasu, Ise Shrine, kami, kamikaze, Kojiki, miko, Shinto, torii Unit Three Vocabulary Chapter Ten

Judaism, Hebrews, menorah, covenant, Torah, Hanukkah, rabbis, synagogue, Babylonian Talmud, Sephardic, Ashkenazi, Zionism, Tanak, henotheism, Shema, seder, kosher, bar mitzvah Chapter Eleven Christ, resurrection, crucifix, Gospel, New Testament, apostles, justification, orthodoxy, monasticism, pope, fundamentalism, ecumenism, Trinity, mainline, Evangelicalism Unit Four Vocabulary Chapter Twelve Islam, Allah, umma, caliph, Shi'as, Sunnis, Arab Spring, imam, Sufis, Wahhabi, hadith, Shari'a, jihad, shahada, zakat, hajj Chapter Thirteen sect, cult, apocalyptic, millenarianism, New Age, Wicca, Mormon, plural marriage, sealing, Scientology, engram, auditing, E-meter, thetan Secularism & Growth of the Nones Nones – those who mark “no religion” when prompted in public surveys....