Quiz 4

Question 1

Beatitude

Answer 1

Happiness, or even blessedness, though not as a temporary mood, but as a sense of complete fulfillment, a final and total wholeness of existence, a completeness of who we are

Question 2

Bhakti Marga

Answer 2

in Hinduism, the way of devotion, a means of salvation through ones devoted relationship to a personal god

Question 3

Grace (salvation by)

Answer 3

the idea of receiving salvation as a gift of divine love

Question 4

Jnana marga

Answer 4

in Hinduism, the way of knowledge, a means of salvation through gnostic realization of ones identity with Brahman

Question 5

Moksha

Answer 5

literally, liberation, the idea in religions of India of a salvation described as an escape from rebirth in samsara

Question 6

Religious universalism

Answer 6

the belief that ultimately all people will achieve the ideal state of being
- Samsara: in religious traditions of India, the realms of life and rebirth, thus all the realms of possible reincarnation, ultimately viewed negatively as the world to be denied and escaped

Question 7

Summum bonum

Answer 7

literally the highest good, a term used generally as synonymous with beatitude

Question 8

Aniconic

Answer 8

the characteristic of having no images (icons) or rejecting the use of images

Question 9

Calligraphy

Answer 9

literally beautiful writing, thus the art of making letters (as in the Quran) or glyphs (as in Chinese), especially decorative or elaborate

Question 10

Mandala

Answer 10

in Tibetan Buddhism, a detailed and colourful representation of, for example, the dwelling of an enlightened being. The artwork itself is meticulously and meditatively produced then destroyed.

Question 11

Performative art

Answer 11

those artistic practices that are active, like dance or drama

Question 12

Pictorial art

Answer 12

the drawing and painting of depictions that represent sacred beings or sacred stories

Question 13

Commisioning experience

Answer 13

A supernatural encounter that calls a person to special service to god

Question 14

Ecstatic(religious experience)

Answer 14

literally to “stand outside oneself”, having an experience of absorption in a sacred power outside oneself

Question 15

Enstatic (religious experience)

Answer 15

literally to “stand inside oneself”, having an experience of absorption in a deeper experience inside oneself, absorbed perhaps in one’s own contemplations

Question 16

Epistemology (of religious experience)

Answer 16

generally an analysis of the relation between experience and truth claims. In religion, the concern may be with the relation between religious experience and claims about Ultimate Being, generally whether religious experiences yield any information about the truth of religious beliefs.

Question 17

Gnostic

Answer 17

relating to a special kind of insight gained through religious experience

Question 18

Mysticism, or mystical experience

Answer 18

a powerful religious experience in many faiths that is described as a deep absorption into the Ultimate and a corresponding loss of identity. Generally, a deep sense of oneness with the Ultimate being

Question 19

Orthopathos

Answer 19

literally, straight feelings, the suggestion that even subjective religious experience will display a certain consistency with claims of religious truths and directions for religious practice

Question 20

Perennial philosophy

Answer 20

an interpretation of religion that views all religions as fundamentally built on the same mystical experience of oneness with higher reality

Question 21

Religious experience

Answer 21

feelings, emotions and the more affective and aesthetic experiences one has, particularly in connection with some supernatural reality

Question 22

Satori

Answer 22

In Japanese Zen Buddhism, the sudden, breakthrough experience of enlightenment

Question 23

Subjectivity: (of religious experience

Answer 23

experiences characterized as events in persons inner life rather than in the observable world, that is, in contrast to objectivity.