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Axia College Material
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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