Hum130 Week One Vocabulary

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Week One Vocabulary Quiz

| |Define these terms in your own words. |

|1. Immanent |In religion immanent refers to something that occurs in the mind, not something that affects the |

| |outside at all. Most spiritual experiences are immanent and only the people having these experiences|

| |can even feel it. |

|2. Religion |The word religion can be defined as a belief in something higher than yourself, whether it be one |

| |God or multiple gods. Religion has been something that people use as a piller for their faith for |

| |centuries. |

|3. Theistic |Theistic views are very similar to that of religion itself. It is simply the belief in the existence|

| |of a higher power(s) and that this higher power(s) was the creator and ruler of the world. |

|4. Monotheistic |Most religions follow a monotheistic view on God. Monotheistic views mean that the person only |

| |believes in one God that created everything in our living world. |

|5. Profane |Profane things in the religious world are things that are seen as unholy, or in contempt for God. |

| |When you speak negative words or phrases in the house of the Lord you are looked at as profane. |

|6. Polytheistic...