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Western Religion Exam 1 Flashcards

1
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How does religion arise from the human condition? x4

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  1. Fear of death
  2. hope for afterlife
  3. control over nature
  4. uncertainty
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spirituality vs organized religion

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  • Your own spiritual journey
  • A group’s belief of the same spritiual journey
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How Western religion has been shaped by historical circumstances

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Jews being exiled from Spain. Changed their views led to mysticism the Kaballah and Hasidism. The holocaust.

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Zoroastrians central to Western religion

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  • Belief that there is one universial supreme power.
  • Active participation through good deeds.
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Why we can’t label jews as a race? x2

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  1. don’t share one common ancestor
  2. jews have been dispersed throught the world for 2 thousand yrs.
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Inconsistencies in Genesis

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  1. who created heaven and earth. God?
  2. or God and Jesus?
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Documentary hypothesis purpose?

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  • Wellhausen,
  • to reconcile inconsitencies.
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What were Wellhausens 4 narratives

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  1. **J= ** Yahweh, 950 BCE S. Kingdom of Judah
  2. **E= ** Elohim, 850 BCE Israel
  3. D= Deuteronomy, 600 BCE Jerusalem
  4. P= Priestly 500 BCE Exile into Babylon
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2 Exiles the Jews persued

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  1. Babylon
  2. King Solomon’s Temple was destroyed
  3. Israel split into north and south
    1. North was Judah,
    2. South was Bethlehem
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What and When Was Macabean revolt? What Holiday?

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  • Revolt against the Greeks- traditionalist vs assimilation
  • 167-160 BCE
  • Hanukah
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Pharisees

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  • hypocrits. Interested in outward form of ritual than inner substance.
  • middle class, landowners, skilled workers.
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Zeolots

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  • Bandits
  • rebels against the Romans
  • Comitted suicide at Masada
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Samaritans

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  • Guardian
  • rejected the prophets and writings of the hebrew bible
  • “True religion” of the Israelites
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70 CE What happened?

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  • The Great Revolt against Rome.
  • Destruction of second temple
  • Good deed is replaced by sacrifice
  • Harmony with Greek philosophy
  • Jews lost political power until 1948
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What happened at Masada, What Jewish group?

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  • Jew’s committed suicide when realized they had been defeated by Roman Empire. The good deed was sacrificing their life
  • Zealots
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Judaism Purity Laws

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  • eat animals that are considered clean
  • Husbands were prohibited to have intercourse with a menstruating woman
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Moses Maimonide 1134-1204 CE

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  • no literal bible
  • no confict between faith and reason
  • Aristotelian tradition.
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1492 CE- Spark of mystical movements

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  • Jews kicked out of Spain
  • Moved to Turkey and Balkan countries where they were treated better
  • Led to
19
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Baal Shem Tov

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  • founder of tzaddik
20
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Tzaddik

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righteous person

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Baal Shem Tov’s spiritual Message

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  • best way through communing with god was through humility, good deed, prayer, and joy
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When Hasidism spread to Latvia and Lithuania, how did it change

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  • fusion of Talmud Judaism and Hassidic Pietism
  • Known as Chabad- Wisdom/ insight / knowledge
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Shema Instructions

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  • Love the lord with all your heart
  • repeat morning noon and night
  • to your children
  • indoors and outdoors
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Solemn feast of Yom Kippur

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A day of Atonement. Asking for forgiveness asking your neighbors for foriveness

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Passover Seder

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  • Celebration of journey to egypt
  • Eat standing
  • God came to moses and let the people out
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Passover Haggadah

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the reading of the story

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Reform Jews

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  • non fundamentalist.
  • Update
  • dietary and purity laws were optional.
  • Willingness to change to conform
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Conservative Jews

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  • Pary in all hebrew
  • Maintain jewish tradition of service
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Orthodox Jews

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  • Fundamentalist
  • strong stance in government
  • strict kosher
  • Judaism passed down maternally
30
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Reconstructionist Jews

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  • Humanistic moral teachings
  • Hassids
  • Do good deeds
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Theodor Herzl 1860-1905 on assimilation

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  • Jews must have their own land and political state.
  • Developing a homeland not just for jews but for the world
32
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Why was Hitler’s campaign against the jews effective

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  • That economic woes were to be blamed on the jews
33
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Emil Fackenheim’s duty

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  • must be remembered and never repeated
  • People of Israel must look to their own survival
  • Live as Jews so that Jewishness can never be exterminated.
34
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Holocaust and Israel linked

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  • A Place in the world where Jews can be safe
35
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Cunningham on Religion without a supreme being

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  • Practicing rituals
  • repeated at specific times
  • independent search for sacred through experiences

Spring Semester 2014 (7 decks)

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