Definitions

Question 1

Belief

Answer 1

An acceptance that something exists without proof

Question 2

Ceremony

Answer 2

A formal religious / public occasion to celebrate a particular event

Question 3

Deity

Answer 3

God or Goddess

Question 4

Divine

Answer 4

Higher power is within someone / something - God

Question 5

Ethics

Answer 5

Reflection on moral belifes and parctises to calrify what is right from wrong - influnced by religion (sacred texts)

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Immanent Religion

Answer 6

An indwelling, of a divine being or spirtual forces as an instrinic part of the world

Question 7

Kinship

Answer 7

Relationships traditionally accpeted by a particular cilture and the rights and obligations they involve.

Question 8

Mimis

Answer 8

A spirit person depcited in rock and bark paintings

Question 9

Monothesim

Answer 9

Belife in one God

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Mythology

Answer 10

A collection of myths in one belonging to a particular religious or cultural tradition

Question 11

Panthesim

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Identiifes God with the universe of creation / manifestation

Question 12

Paradigm

Answer 12

Certain way of thinking about a religion

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Polytheism

Answer 13

Belife that there are more than one god - if not many

Question 14

Religion

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Is the belief and worship of a supernatural or divine controlling power. Characterised by ethics, rituals, belifes, believers and sacred texts

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Totemism

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An object such as an animal, plant or landmark through a person is linked to the Ancestral Being responsbile for his or her existance

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Transcendent Religion

Answer 16

Beyond our world and our experiences

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Religious Worldview

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the belief in universal God and people have a duty to follow an ethical code

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Dreaming

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A complex concept of fundeamental important that embraces the long-ago creative era of the Ancestral Beings as well as past and future.

Question 19

Geosophical

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Earth-centered - connection to land (Aborignial)

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Animistic

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Connected to nature and believe that everything has a spirt.

Question 21

Songlines

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Traditional song or story that records a journey made during the dreamtime.

Question 22

Ancestral Beings

Answer 22

Spirits who moved about forming the landscape and creating the plants, animals and peoples of the known world. Founded the ceremonies and laws of human society (marriage)

Question 23

Ethical Decision Making

Answer 23

When business decisions about production methods, employment, and other matters are made taking into consideration the impacts on broader society and the environment and not simply the maximization of a firm’s profits.