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Intro to World Religion Final
questions for the final exam
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Religious Studies
Undergraduate 1
12/05/2010

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Religion ___________
Definition
Gives hope in transcending death
Term
Rene Descartes
Definition
believed in "decompositional pathways"
Term
Carl Jung
Definition
Believes symbols were recycled among religions
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Sigmund Freud
Definition
Working on a personal scale, he believed religion is an illusion
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Immanuel Kant
Definition
Preferred "received" religion to "dogmatic tyranny"
Term
Class Definition of Religion
Definition
Religion is belief that commonly-held innate norms, rituals, myths, symbols will provide support in this life and help transcend death
Term
What were shamans?
Definition
priests
Term
This group of people colored their dead red to represent life
Definition
Cro-Magnon
Term
Neanderthal cult that involved the head of an animal
Definition
the bear cult
Term
Tribe that believed a person has three souls
Definition
Tocaboga
Term
Totem
Definition
Sacred sysmbol, often in the form of an animal
Term
Muhamad
Definition
recieved a revelation from the Angel Gabriel
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Holiest site in Islam
Definition
Mecca or Ka'ba
Term
the term " Islam" means
Definition
"To Submit"
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Al-Ghazzali
Definition
mystic who promoted Sufism
Term
The death of Ali caused?
Definition
The division between Sunnis and Shi'ites
Term
Contains Judaism's complete scriptures
Definition
Tanak
Term
Who received a written covenant from God
Definition
Moses
Term
Zoroastrianism
Definition
Religion that caused Hebrews to develop the concept of hell
Term
Yiddish
Definition
combination of German and Hebrew languages
Term
neo-paganism
Definition
came to the united states originally though the efforts of a russian immigrant
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ras tarfari
Definition
believed the ethiopian emperor will liberate them
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wicca
Definition
nature-based religion that does not believe in satan
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rev. sun myung moon
Definition
believes he is the married messiah
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international raelians
Definition
believe aliens cloned humanity
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Gorbin Singh
Definition
founded the order of lions
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absorption by God
Definition
belief from Sufi Islam
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Adi Granth
Definition
the last guru in sikhism
Term
God's name in Sikhism
Definition
true name
Term
Nanak
Definition
left his family singing songs
Term
allows christmas to be a shinto holiday
Definition
a little of this a little of that
Term
consumerism
Definition
what shinto became after World War 2
Term
Japanese emperors
Definition
descended from a god
Term
who made Japan
Definition
the original humans or kami
Term
shinto
Definition
way of the spirits
Term
step by step guide to enlightenment
Definition
eightfold path
Term
dahlia lama
Definition
living in india he is a bodhisattva
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anatta
Definition
no soul
Term
aggregates
Definition
these are reincarnated
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