World Religions Intro

Father of history

The ____________ dimension of religion includes formal worship practice, which often involves reenacting a myth.

The basic dimensions of a religious tradition include

believed there was one sacred (God) behind all religions

The belief that divine reality exists in everything is called ____________.

radical critic of religion; sought to explain the sense of the sacred

Belief in the existence of only one god

aims at immediate knowledge of spiritual intentions

first idols of female deities were found in this age

the first man to use religion

Belief that all reality ultimately is made up of only one essence

Belief that there is no god

One approach for studying religions is ____________, the capacity to see things from another person’s perspective.

Belief that the universe and everything in it is divine

use of magical objects or drawings

Most religions teach that spiritual fulfillment is closely related to some form of ____________ from death

experience of sacred reality

authoritative teachings of a religion

bone boxes

fear or reverence for the gods

the communal aspect of religion

A religion that includes a belief in a personal god or gods is

In some forms of ____________, the individual becomes one with ultimate reality through inward contemplation.

an acceptance that all sorts of objects, living and non-living, have spirits in them

certain burial shells shaped like a portal

formal practice of worship

in this age the Mother Goddess became associated with creation and regeneration

Which two things enrich our study of world religions?

What are some different ways of understanding ultimate reality?

often non-historical sources of sacred truth

sacred architecture and holy sites

Belief in the existence of a personal God/gods

Belief that it is not possible to know whether there is a god

Friedrich Max Müller noted that to know just one religion is to know

Many world religions include sacred stories that are passed along from one generation to the next. These are called

the concept of religion is believed to have begun in this age

refers to the conjuring of spirits in or out of a body

Cathedrals, temples, statues, and sacred places in nature are all examples of which dimension of religion?

refers to any sort of presumed power in an inanimate object

Religion begins with ____________.

virtuous ways of living in the world

The social dimension of religion promotes all of the following except

Belief that a god exists but is not personally involved in the world

Some forms of spiritual fulfillment involve ____________, the overcoming of normal limitations imposed human conditions.

The worship of more than one god is called ____________.

The ____________dimension of religion deals with how we are to act while living in the world.

Suffering is an important aspect of the ____________, one of the basic concerns of religion.

The understanding of the nature of the universe is called

Belief in the existence of many gods

What questions does religion seek to respond to?