Religion Flashcards
Afterlife
Fate of humans after death in monastic religions heaven or hell
Ancestors
departed family members (as opposed to nature spirits) but not direct ancestors. Interact with individuals or groups and are known through shamans.
Animism
View that nonhuman objects living and non are inhabited by some kind of spirit
Conversion
abandoning of adherence to one denomination and affiliating with another. One life to another
Cosmogony
the study of the creation of the universe as a whole and of the individual bodies that compose it.
Cosmology
In philosophy, one’s understanding of how the universe in its entirety fits together.
Demons
Greek-daimon and daimonion
Supernatural beings with extraordinary powers and functions.
Folk religion
The integration of the religious world view and practices into everyday life. It may include the use of religious healers and diviners. Outside the doctrine of organized religion.
Monotheism
the doctrine or belief that there is only one God.
Polytheism
the belief in or worship of more than one god
Monism
A believes that recognizes oneness or unity as the defining characteristic of reality. all things are States of the single God
Henotheism
People recognize many different gods but worship only one
Pantheism
Expesses the view that all things, persons,and matter are God
Mysticism
A form a spirituality stressing Union with God and religious experience rather than doctrine
Religious
The degree to which a person is religious or spiritual
Ritual
A sacred custom or any form of repetitive behavior that is fixed by tradition.
Sacrifice
An act of slaughtering an animal or person or surrendering a possession as an offering to God or to a divine or supernatural figure.
Salvation
God’s redemptive plan by which a prison is reconciled with God.
Science
The intellectual and practical activity and compassing the systematic study of the structure and behavior of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment.
Religion
Consist a very general explanations of existence including the terms of exchange with a God or gods.
Shaman
Resident experts on ritual and magic or a medium for the spiritual powers. A healer manipulates the spirits. A sharman is possessed by the spirits or ancestors. Uses magic to deal with religious powers
Syncretism
Mixing of religious traditions.
Theogony
genealogy of A group Or system of gods
Creole Religious
A type of religious syncretism in which the adherents move beyond mere syncretism to form a religion thatis complete in itselfwith out reference to the old faiths.
FOUNDERS
Prisons regarded by religious traditions as thier initial human organizers and leaders and thier continuing primary authorities on religious matters.
