Hum 130 Vocabulary Quiz 5

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Appendix C

HUM 130 Week 1 Vocabulary Quiz

| Define these terms in your own words. |

1. Immanent | Within something. The idea that God is in all parts of His universe. |

2. Religion | A belief system that can include customs and rituals |

3. Theistic | Belief in a god or gods |

4. Monotheistic | Believing there is only one god. |

5. Profane | Disrespect God or gods or not be involved with any |

6. Polytheistic | Belief in many gods |

7. Monistic | The belief that all is one |

8. Dogma | A belief statement or principle believed to be true, sometimes set by church |

9. Nontheistic | The rejection of theism, or a non belief in any gods |

10. Transcendent | Outside of the realm of ordinary perception before we came to be. |

11. Incarnations | Embodied in flesh |

12. Kensho | A Zen Buddhism term used to describe a state of enlightment. |

13. Atheism | Rejection of theism |

14. Agnosticism | The belief that the existence of god is unknowable |

15. Rituals | A repeated or repetitious set of actions |

16. Symbols | A character or picture that represents something else |

17. Myths | An ancient story which usually imparts some idea about life or its meaning |

18. Orthodox | Dealing with or conforming to a certain set of beliefs or a religion. |

19. Routinization of charisma | Taking a charismatic leader and forming a structured following or religion after his beliefs and statues. |

20. Absolutists | One who believes in absolute rights and wrongs |

21. Charisma | The quality that allows one influence over large numbers of people |

22. Fundamentalism | Reducing a religion to its most fundamental tenets |

23. Phenomenology | Philosophy based on the intuitive experience phenomena |

24. Liberal | Permissive, or favoring social freedom |

25. Mysticism | Belief of spiritual intuition or occult mysteries |

26. Heretic | Someone who doesn’t believe in the religion they claim to believe in |

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