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What is a Religion? Flashcards

1
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Control Thesis

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Representation is not a reality

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Miracle

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Event for which a rational explanation does not yet exist

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Working definition of a religion

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An even in which one or more people represent an alleged ultimate reality

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Goal of working definition of religion

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to understand what is going on

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descriptive not prescriptive

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Not telling people how to be religious

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The Canadian definition of religion

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religion is a set of practices and beliefs freely chosen by an individual whose beliefs and practices have no authority over another individual

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Blasphemy

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One persons truth claim is another persons blasphemy

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Internal flux

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within a religious community - the members do not agree with everything of that religion

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Geographic flux

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differences in a religion based on geography

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historical flux

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Mormons do not believe that catholics are christians and same goes vice versa

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External competition

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religious groups that are different and are competing with one another

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Syncretism

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when two entirely different religions start to emerge

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Neutral vocabulary

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set of words and use those words to describe

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Theos

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Greek word for God

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15
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Theism

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Any religion that has one or more supernatural agent

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polytheism

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Religion that has many gods

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Henotheism

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Religions that has more than one god but there is a hierarchy, they are not equal

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Monotheism

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Religion that has one and only one supernatural agent

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Monolatry

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Group of people who worship one god, believe in more gods but only worship one

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Theistic Dualism

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universe being rules by 2 supernatural agents. one god is of goodness and the other is of evil

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Zoroastrianism

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two supernatural agents that are at war with one another

22
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Immanent God

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God conceptualized of being available in time and space

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Transcendent God

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God conceptualized oof not being available in time and space

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What is orthopraxy

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correct religious practice

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How does Moodle define secularization

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Decreased influence of religion in the public space

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Countries that guarantee religious freedom have seen an increasing variety of new religions. how has this Trent affected existing religious communities

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This trend decreases religious participation

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What is a common symptom of secularization

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People who accept religious truth-claims take these claims less seriously than did earlier generations

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How does birthrate affect the long-term success of a religious community

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Low birthrates guarantee the decline of religious membership

29
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What does the religious strategy of reductionism try to do?

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Accept secularization but affirm that there is only one correct religion

30
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What does research on the numbers of people who participate in worship services demonstrate?

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Participation in worship services has declined significantly in recent decades

31
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During the past 2 centuries, each new human generation has been?

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less likely to take seriously the truth-claims of any religion

32
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Who defines Orthodox religion

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The leaders of a religious group

33
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According to Moodle essay, what is the cognitive optimum

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It is the instinct to seek agents everywhere

34
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why is increased religious diversity a catalyst for decreased religious participation

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Diverse truth-claims imply that all truth-claims are merely human opinions

35
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Among early Christians, many equated Jesus Christ with an angel and others equated him with God. This is an example of what?

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Experimentation with a variety of minimally counterintuitive agents

36
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identify the theism in this quotation: “I fell down to worship at the feet of the angel…but he said to me, ‘you must not do that!…Worship God’”

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Monotheism

37
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Religious conquest and conversion strategies share the same goal

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To defeat secularization

38
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what are causes for secularization

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the right to religious freedom

39
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why is the construction of orthodoxy a political process

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Those who would be leaders find ways to impose their definition of correct belief on others

40
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What is the logical by-product of every orthodoxy

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Heresy

41
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Definition of a definition

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A hypothesis that helps us to understand

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