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Appendix C
HUM 130 Week 1 Vocabulary Quiz
Define these terms in your own words.
1. Immanent Remaining within indwelling
2. Religion A set of beliefs concerning the cause, nature and purpose of the universe.
3. Theistic The belief in one God as the creator and the ruler of the universe
4. Monotheistic Belief that is only one God to belief in.
5. Profane Not devoted to holy or religious purpose
6. Polytheistic The belief that there is more than one God to belief in
7. Monistic The belief that life is decided to one single concept
8. Dogma Systems of doctrines proclaimed as absolutely true and accepted as such, even if they lie
9. Nontheistic The opposite of athelsm.The belief that there is not only one god to belief in.
10. Transcendent That which exists outside of limits
11. Incarnations some belief these to be sacred reality showing itself, normally happen
12. Kensho The experience of some unseen reality showing itself to us on this plane
13. Atheism Belief that there is no God.
14. Agnosticism The belief that it is impossible to know what lies beyond this plane.
15. Rituals An act or series of acts regularly repeated in a set precise manner
16. Symbols something that is used to convey a secondary or complex meaning not evident from the word or image itself
17. Myths
a typically traditional story of apparently historical events that serves to give details or part of the world view of a people or explain a practice, belief, or natural phenomenon
18. Orthodox Stand by an historical form of their religion, strictly following its established practices, laws, and creeds
19. Routinization of charisma An influential early twentieth-century scholar of the sociology of religion,
20. Absolutists Support of a rule by absolute standards or principles
21. Charisma Is the rare quality of personal magnetism often ascribed to founders of religion
22. Fundamentalism Is often applied to...