RELIGION Flashcards
1
Q
US:
On s’accorde généralement à dire que niveau religion EU?
Données diversité religieuse?
A
Common wisdom is that the US in one of the most religious-minded of all Western democracies.
50% Protestants, evangelist specially in Bible-Belt States
25% Roman Catholics
2,5 % Jewish
Else: Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, Mormons
2
Q
VOCAB 1
- Une ecrasante majorité de chrétiens
- les états du sud très marquée par influ évang
- un colon
- “c’est une opinion largement étendue que “
- à la frontiere sur..
- la déontologie
- ” il faut garder à l’esprit que”
- “Qu’on se dit la vérité”
- profondément enraciné dans
- cohérent avec
A
- An overwhelming majority of Americains perceive themself as Christians
- Bible-Belt states
- a settler
- it is widely held view that
- to border on
- work ethic
- It should be bord in mind that
- Truth be told
- deep-rooted in
- consistent with
3
Q
VOCAB 2 Le salut -progressiste -téléprédicateur (qui preche parole dieu) -résumer, englober -tirer profit de -Cristiquer sévèrement -primordial, central -d'où + nom.. -un évangéliste -devenir la proie de -considérer
A
- Salvation
- liberal
- Televangeslist
- to encapsulate
- to capitaliSe on
- core
- hence + noun..
- born-again
- to fall prey to
- to deem
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Q
VOCAB 3
- Etre contrarié par qlq chose
- Une rupture avec une idee..
- Par lequel/ laquelle
- recompenser qlq
- le moment venu
- simplement
- sur le déclin
- exercer une influence
- dans l’imaginaire collectif
- un afflux de..
- écarter
A
- To resent sth
- A departure from
- whereby
- to reward sb
- in due time
- merely
- on the wane
- to wield an influence
- in the popular imagery
- an influx of
- to brush aside
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Q
VOCAB 4
- rendre compte de, exliquer
- alimenter la suspicion
- Dans ce contexte
- monter en flèche
- un groupe sectaire
- une ramification
- le QG
- mondain / matérialiste /hypocrite
- se laisser aller
- en dehors des liens sacrés du mariage
- un hérétique, disssident
- Bien installé, populaire
A
- to sccount for sth
- to fuel suspicion
- against that background
- to soar
- a cult
- an offshoot
- headquarters
- worldly. /materialistic/ist. /hyprocritical
- to indulge on
- out of wedlock
- a dissenter
- well-established
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VOCAB 5
- Refuser qlq chose à qlq
- un principe
- ce qu’on ne prend guère pour
- une devise
- prêter serment
- ne ps faire foi de sa mystère, cpt ostent
- un candidat au poste de gouverneur
- apporter son soutien au candidat
- argumenter en faveur de
- un prg politique
- solliciter l’aide de qlq
A
- To deny sb to st
- A tenet
- Which hardly qualifies for
- A motto
- to swear an oath
- to wear one’s faith on one’s sleeves
- a gubernatiorial candidate
- to endorse a candidate
- to make the case for
- a political platform
- to draw upon sb
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VOCAB 6
- façonner
- intimement lié à
- l’avortement tardif
- un partisan de l’interdiction à l’av # fav au droit de l’av
- empecher qlq de faire qlq chose 2
- etre conforment au modele trad
- le compagnon de course
- être acceuilli par
- faire annuler ..
- Une religion d’Etat
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- To shape
- woven into the fabric of
- partial-birth adoption
- a pro-lifer # a pro-choice
- to bar sb from doing sth
- to fall allong traditional lines
- the running-mate
- to ge greeted by
- to overturn (a desicision..)
- An established church
8
Q
3 exemples that show the importance of religion in Am
Mots-clé: entrer en fonction sur serment, sous-entendus, entrelacer
A
- A perfect exemple of how politics and religions are INTERWINED is that the President is SWORN INTO OFFICE on the Bible
- The wholde rethoric of BUSH administration (crusade, axis of evil..) was SUFFUSED with religious undertones
- “In God We Trust” is the Star-Splanged Banner, official moto of the USA
9
Q
Datas: whats the issues
Athées convaincus
La clé de coûte, le pillier
Éclore
A
- Secularization in Western societies in on the increase: mostly in Europe, while the processe of secularization continues unabated, the US is experiencing a revival of THE Christian faith
- new-cons hold it for certain that religion is the CORNERSTONE of national identity-> view offenssive to ADAMANT atheists
- but new sects/ marginal groups: tend so SPROUP UP every year : therefore overtly challenging the mainstream denomination
10
Q
*Religion used for an acarne aim
Car le passé, Les téléprédicateurs, les gouroux
Païens, naïf, pieux, vertueux, parmi
A
- Seen negative in the popular imaginery: Klu Klux Klan, Nation of Islam..
- The guru’s dream is to convert those gullible pagans into pious and vertuous disciples
- Televangelist’s aim is to proselytise, often AMID overdrammatization and many calls for believer’s generosity
11
Q
Still, lots of polemic espicially in Europe on religious matters
Exemples
Atteinte à liberté
Secularisation, Divorce croissant entre individus et eglise not jeunes
Humour: scientology in france
A
- The French law on conspicious/overt religious symbols like the Islamic HEADSCARF, has sometimes been seen as an inbreachment of the religion freedom by the English-speaking press
- The Vatican’s STANCE on the ordination of women into priesthood and on contraception are hardly like/shod do little to redeem/burnish the image of the Catholic church amoung younsgters
- Whereas in France, scientology is widely sern qs s sect, in the US it is a”church” whish is quite-established in some States
12
Q
Others polemics
*gay marriage, vocation crisis
Faire de l'ombre à à la tete de, fer de lance.. Cathégorique, affirmé Il se font désormais entendre Continue sans répit Confession, 2
A
- The vocation crisid has reached such a magnitude in the Catholic church that advicates of reexamining the VOW OF CELIBACY are now making themselves heard
- position on gay marriage, abortion: few effots-> raises polemic
To overshadow sth, sb Spearhead Adamant They are now making themselves heard Keeps, continues unabated Denomination, avowal
