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HIS of RELIGION in AMERICA
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Religious Studies
Undergraduate 3
04/03/2012

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Native American religious practices
Definition
differences between hunter-gatherer and horticultural way of life
Term
hunter gatherer
Definition
animal ceremonies
shaman or spirit traveler
yearly ceremony of cosmic rejuv
few stationary spaces
male supreme being
life after death beyond horizon or in sky
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horticultural way of life
Definition
fertility and rain ceremonies
pries
yearly round of fertility rituals
permanent temples, shrines
godesses and gods
life after death in underworld or among clouds
Term
Partial acculturation
Definition
Handsome Lake
Term
No acculturation
Definition
Tenskwatana
Term
Native American contemporary legal battles
Definition
1978 Indian Rel Freedom Act
1990 Native Am Graves Protection and Repatriation Act
1996 Kennewick Man or The Ancient One
2003 Lakota "Declaration of War..."
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Tshirt that gained attention
Definition
HOMELAND SECURITY Fighting Terrorism since 1492, picture of Natives with guns
Term
Kiowas
Definition
compelled crossing
destruction of the buffalo and indian territory formation after 1825
govt mandating reservations, agriculture, Christianity
Buffalo War 1874
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Diverse Christian traditions
Definition
Roman Cath
Eastern Orthodoxy
Protestantism
Term
Departures from Universal Church
Definition
eastern orthodox 11th century
protestantism 16th century
Term
Catholic definition of Catholicism
Definition
involves a configuration of 3 principles
1. sacramentality...protestant fear, idolatry
2. mediation...protestant fear, magic
3. communion...protestant feat, suppression of individuality
Term
Isaac Hecker
Definition
elite protestant convert
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Cardinal James Gibbons
Definition
defending immigration
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Catholic, ethnic diversity
Definition
german
italian
irish
Term
Americanism condemned by Cath
Modernism condemned by Cath
Definition
1899
1907
Term
William Kennedy and Sister Mary Joseph
Definition
Term
Vatican II 1962-65
Definition
Updating the church
liturgy: the mass
church and state
Term
meaning of protestantism, Martin Luther
Definition
Term
2 minute history of Christianity (protestant)
Definition
1.Beginnings: death of Christ to 100
2.Progress: 100-conversion of Constantine in 313
3. Rise of the Papacy: 313-coronation of emperor Charlemagne in 800
4. Full Sway of the Papacy: 800-end of crusades in 1295
5. Decline of the Papacy: 1295-beginning of reformation in 1517
6. Rise and spread of protestant faiths: 1517 to present
Term
1607 to present
Definition
Protestantism in America
1. Congregationalists in NE
2. Baptists in Rhode Island
3. Quakers in religious diverse Pennsyl.
Term
Quakers
Definition
"right practice" not "right belief" no big rituals, theologies
liberal, anti slavery, pro women
Term
Baptists
Definition
dissenters, Roger Williams
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Congregationalists
Definition
John Eliot: mission to Indians
Jonathan Edwards: pastor in Northhampton and missionary to indians
Susanna Anthony of Newport, journal and letter 1774,1775
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2nd great awakening
Definition
1802, Cane Ridge Revival and the Reform Impulse (east, New Haven and Yale, tame and intellectual in nature)
Kentucky, frontier...wilder
Term
Charles Granison Finney
Definition
later revivalism, rural setting
physical: rolling, jerks, barks
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Robert Baird, American Religion
Definition
classified religions as evangelical or non-evangelical
Term
protestant divisiveness after the Civil War
Definition
White splits: north and south
Pentecostalism
Term
Fundamentalism
Definition
Machen
Term
Modernism
Definition
Matthews
Term
Left behind, novel and movie
Definition
intra-protestant disputes
Timothy LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins
1995 and 2000 movie
Term
millenialists
Definition
more mythologizing, as mainline protestants tried to de-mythologize
rapture=escape glorifies resistance and war, opposition says should be about the here and now, healing here
Term
Joel Edwards
Definition
pentecostal "destined to win"
"slain in the spirit"
faith healing
Term
creed
Definition
statement of belief
Term
core belief
Definition
summary, indiv with own interpretation
Term
against ordination of women or gays
Definition
pentecostal
Term
real enemy is secularism
Definition
Catholics view
Term
real enemy is discrimination, unchanging fundamentalist
Definition
Secular view
Term
"The Black Church"
Definition
Indep, Af Am Chr Churches
black sacred cosmos, emphasis on world view: freedom, emotion, personal conversion
WEB DuBois, Harvard, the preacher the music and the frenzy
7 denominations:
1. Af Meth E (AME)
2. Af Meth E Zion (AMEZ)
3. Ch Meth Episcopal (CME)
4. Natl Bapt Conv (NBC)
5. Natl B Conv America, Uninc (NBCA)
6. Prog Nat Bapt Conv (PNBC)
7. Ch of God in Christ (COGIC)
Term
Mother Bethel
Definition
oldest Af Am instit. in Am continuously owned by blacks, cradle of AME founded by Richard Allen Philadelphia
Term
Liberation Theology
Definition
Af Am Religion post Civil Rts Movement
James Cone
James Forman, year after assassination of MLK, 1969, wants economic reparations
Term
The 7 Mainline Denominations in the U.S.
Definition
BCDE...LMP
Baptist
Congregationalists
Disciples of Christ
Episcopalian
Lutheran
Methodist
Presbyterian
Term
Frederick Douglas
Definition
against Christian churches, sees them as tolerating slavery and a tool to keep black down
Term
Nation of Islam
Definition
Elijah Muhammad first leader 1950 grew to 500K by 1963 abd 100 temples
Term
malcolm x
Definition
became natl spokesperson for Nation of Islam, broke with nation when pilgrimage to Mecca and converted to orthodox Islam, renounced racial separatism, triggered his assassination in 65
Term
Louis Farrakhan
Definition
1933 led smaller faction, but recently moderated his message against aggressie racial posture in Million Man March 1995
Term
African American Islam
Definition
3 Million of 8 Million Muslim are African American
Term
Lemuel Haymes
Definition
"new divinity theology"
emphasized acting with justice to the "poor Africans among us"
Term
Af Am and evangelical movement 18-19th century
Definition
receptive because of:
experientialism
egalitarianism
emphasis on emotive expression, lay teaching and ecstatic audience
Term
"hoo doo"
Definition
Afro Carib immigrants brought voodoo, spread through slave south as "hoo doo", others retained Islam they'd been exposed to in Africa
Term
Moorish Science
Definition
Noble Drew Ali, differed from Qu'ran
holy Koran combined Christianity, Islam and Spiritualism and worship included Christian features, splintered after his death
Term
Nation of Islam 1929
Definition
followers joined, Wallace Fard or Wali Farad Muham, pro-black anti white, like Drews, diverged from Muslim orthodoxy
Term
3 major forms of Judaism
Definition
orthodoxy: right belief vs right acts
reform:accomodate to modern world, Wise
conservative:middle ground, retain some culture, but less observant/Schechter
(reconstructionism)
Term
The State of Israel
Definition
1948 official formation
Term
America to Judaism
Definition
"New Israel"
new chosen people
due to 1st amendment
Term
Jewish in America, numbers
Definition
2% of total
reconstructionism, fewest numbers
dominant: reform and conservative
orthodox: FLA and NY
Term
Torah to Jews
Definition
manual for life: followed to letter of law to extract best potential for each individual
Term
New Religious Movements
Definition
Rodney Starks 10 propositions for success 1987
Term
Spiritualism
Definition
Kate and Margaret Fox and spirit rappings
Term
Theosophy
Definition
NYC in 1875 by Helena Blavatsky, Olcott, Steel and others
Belief and the 3 objects
Significance
founded in Cairo
guides to living, mahatmas, appeal to science and reason
Term
Christian Science
Definition
Mary Baker Eddy: God is good and almighty, and evil is unreal, thus healing can be obtained by prayer
Term
Mormonism
Definition
forced migration
Utah Wars 1857-8
plural marriage, 1862 outlawed by U.S govt
1890 W Woodruff Manifesto, no more plural marriage
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cult
Definition
rel movement whose beliefs and practices operate in a society with a different culture
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sect
Definition
groups that operate in a society with same religious culture, but stand in tension with other similar religious groups
Term
New Religious Movement NRM
Definition
any movement that is:
relatively new and relatively different from existing religions
Term
burned over district
Definition
coined by Finney, no "free" unconverted population left to convert
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