Module 5 Flashcards
Religious organizations and communities
Animist
Tylor founder
The belief that everything
Plants,animals, and inanimate objects are animated by spirits
Polytheism
Belief in multiple gods developed
Monotheism
Belief in one God
Axial Age
Karl Jaspers
A reference to the years 800-200 before common era
Great thinkers arose in East and West that transformed religion
Buddha Confucius
Denominationalism
Dedicated religious believers who feel their organizations need reform and eventually break away to form new religious institutions
Enlightenment era
17th century European movement emphasized reason over faith and science over traditional authority.
Deists
Belief in a God who created the world but does not interact with it, answering prayers or performing miracles
Evolution
Charles Darwin
Challenged traditional religion with the theroy
Of natural selection
The fittest of variations survive and reproduce the next generation, what he calls design.
Entropy
All systems eventually wear down
Things fall apart and cant hold them together
Postmodernism
A philosophy that affirms no objective or absolute truth. That may be true for you,but not for me.
Means AFTER Modernism
Emmanuel Kant
He argued that true knowledge about God was impossible. So he created a divide between facts and faith
Perspectivism
Says that all knowledge including science is a matter of perspective and interpretation
Hierarchical
One authority on top and various authorities at various levels underneath
Bottom up religous organizations
Organized by a congregation level
With having great autonomy
Pluralism
The recognition of the legitimacy of multiple religious traditions, each containing certain truths.
Pluralism metaphor…there are many paths up the same mountain that leads to God.
