Hum130 Appendix C Week 1 Vocabulary Quiz
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Appendix C - Week 1 Vocabulary Quiz
1. Immanent - In the study of comparative religion, immanent is to experience sacred reality as present in the world.
2. Religion - The word religion is thought to be derived from the Latin, meaning “to tie back” or “to tie again.” All religions share a common goal of tying people back to something behind the surface of life, to a greater reality, which lies beyond, or invisibly infuses, the world perceived with our five senses.
3. Theistic - Religions based on one’s relationship to the Divine Being.
4. Monotheistic - A religion in which the worshipped being is a singular form.
5. Profane - In the field of comparative religion, the profane is the everyday world of seemingly random, ordinary, and unimportant occurrences. |
6. Polytheistic - A religion in which many attributes and forms of the divine are emphasized.
7. Monistic - Religions believing that beneath the multiplicity of apparent forms there is one underlying substance.
8. Dogma - Systems of doctrines proclaimed as absolutely true and accepted as such, even if they lie beyond the domain of one’s personal experiences. |
9. Nontheistic - Unseen Reality may be conceived in nontheistic terms, as a “changeless Unity,” as “Suchness,” or simply as “the Way.” There may be no sense of a personal Creator God in such understandings.
10. Transcendent - In the study of comparative religion, transcendent is to believe that sacred reality exists outside of the material universe.
11. Incarnations - The sacred
Appendix C - Week 1 Vocabulary Quiz
1. Immanent - In the study of comparative religion, immanent is to experience sacred reality as present in the world.
2. Religion - The word religion is thought to be derived from the Latin, meaning “to tie back” or “to tie again.” All religions share a common goal of tying people back to something behind the surface of life, to a greater reality, which lies beyond, or invisibly infuses, the world perceived with our five senses.
3. Theistic - Religions based on one’s relationship to the Divine Being.
4. Monotheistic - A religion in which the worshipped being is a singular form.
5. Profane - In the field of comparative religion, the profane is the everyday world of seemingly random, ordinary, and unimportant occurrences. |
6. Polytheistic - A religion in which many attributes and forms of the divine are emphasized.
7. Monistic - Religions believing that beneath the multiplicity of apparent forms there is one underlying substance.
8. Dogma - Systems of doctrines proclaimed as absolutely true and accepted as such, even if they lie beyond the domain of one’s personal experiences. |
9. Nontheistic - Unseen Reality may be conceived in nontheistic terms, as a “changeless Unity,” as “Suchness,” or simply as “the Way.” There may be no sense of a personal Creator God in such understandings.
10. Transcendent - In the study of comparative religion, transcendent is to believe that sacred reality exists outside of the material universe.
11. Incarnations - The sacred