Religion Final Exam Flashcards
Babylonian Captivity
the kingdom of judah got captured by Babylonians because they didn’t listen to God telling them not to sacrifice children. THEN the Babylonians get captured and set Judah free from captivity.
Bodhisattva
People qualified to enter nirvana, but remain on this plane to help others.
Bourgeoise
Class of individuals who primarily rule through ideology, and social elites, own the means of production, the ability to control the capital, and are exploiters of labor.
Buhhda
Deserted his family, first to find enlightenment. Present moment & acceptance.
Confirmation
Commitment part of baptism
Eliade
Against reductionism, like phenomenology. Big idea: sacred and profane.
Exorcism
worthy of exorcism if: 1. Superhuman strength, 2. Fluency in the ancient language, 3. Knowledge of private matters.
Freud
The Father of psychoanalysis, unconscious brain, and the superego, claimed religion was like neurosis.
Girard
The sacred and violence are inseparable. Discovered mimetic desire.
Heirophany
manifestation of the dine, and awareness of the sacred.
Jesus Christ
son of god, promised messiah, the only path for gentiles to the one god.
Jinn
Created by the god of fire, dwell in abandoned places. Main part of the Islamic religion. Some good, neutral, and bad, Muslims.
Kabbalah
From Judaism, new age, open to anyone mystical, self-help.
Last rites
Priests administer accommodation of soul to god. Helps resist satan and temptations
Liminality
Period of transition in separation, transition and resegregation.
Lord Yama
Lord of death in Hinduism
Lumpen-proletariat
The under-class of individuals who lack consciousness are drug dealers, drug addicts, and criminals.
Moksha
Represents the liberation for the Samsara (reality, circle of birth and death)
Office of the dead
Recited at funeral mass and death anniversary
Oral Torah
preserved by literacy and learning, used to explain the torah (important!)
Phenomenology
used against reductionism, bracketing belief of supernatural powers, and insistent on using empathy to enter into experiences and intentions of religious partners.
Profane
The realm of everyday events and activities.
Proletariat
Class of individuals who are wage earners, only own their labor (bodies of instruments)
Rites of passage
marks transition from one stage of social life to another. Argues that the sacred is not absolute but relative to particular circumstances.
Sacred
everyone has a concept of the sacred, first dates meaningful events
Smart
creator of the phenomenological method. Said to be the best way to avoid reductionism and advocacy
Sociology
Some concepts cannot be quantified. Problem with using for religion illiteracy and innumeracy
Sola Scriptura
It is problematic to only use the bible as a guide to life.
Soul sleep
When we die, we remain in our graves until judgment
Sunni
removal of all western ideologists is their #1 priority.
Ultimate concern
A concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of the meaning of life.
Weber
sociologist methodist, connecting ideal-types to capitalism.
Wohpe
White buffalo calf women/ Buffalo woman (killed man who tried to rape her)