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| refers to theologies that have at their base the idea that God is on the side of those who suffer most, and is geared towards liberation of Black people from oppression. |
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| the act of exerting and asserting power in a way that is demeaning or unjust to certain groups of people. |
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| the point when an individual is free from societal trappings, oppression, and the will of others. |
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| the idea that something can be non-physically black, but black in terms of being. Here it refers to the idea that because Jesus was most on the side of the suffering, and that black people are suffering, that Jesus was ontologically black. Likewise, if one believes in the tenants of Black Liberation Theology, then s/he might be considered ontologically black. |
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| the life of Christ, especially when in the context of the crucifixion story. |
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| (b. 1938) a theologian who is a member of Faculty at Union Theological Seminary in New York. He is considered a founder of Black Liberation Theology and was the author of Black Theology and Black Power, published in 1969. |
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| (1006 – 586 BCE) The period beginning with the reign of King David when Jerusalem was declared capital. David’s son, Solomon built the First Temple as a holy site for pilgrimage and worship. |
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| with the destruction of the First Temple by the armies of Nebuchadnezzar, the Babylonian exile began. |
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| the movement of a large group, here referring to Jews, away from ancestral homeland. It is also used to refer to Jews who are currently living outside of Israel. Exile refers to the forced departure of the Jewish people from their homeland. |
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| the structure built after the Jewish exiles were allowed to return to Judea. The existed on the site that the Dome of the Rock is built upon today. |
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| (536 BCE -70 CE) The period during the existence of the Second Temple, beginning with a proclamation by King Cyrus that allowed the Jewish exiles to return to Jerusalem. |
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| conflict or discrimination that arises from the perception that there are irreconcilable differences between subdivisions within a group. Here used to describe the oppression of Jews by members of Judeo-Christian faiths. |
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| (c. 150 BCE) a group of Jewish rebels who took control of Judea and founded the Hasmonean dynasty which asserted the Jewish religion among the previously Hellenistic society. |
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| a settlement that is near to the caves where the Dead Sea Scrolls were first discovered in 1947. |
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| (*1469-1539*) the founder of Sikhism. By birth, he was a Hindu of the Khatri caste, and administrator working for a Muslim nobleman
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| *the five Ks (of Sikhism) |
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| kes or uncut hair
, kangha or comb,
kirpan or sword,
kacha or shorts
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| the end of the line of living Gurus, ending after the tenth Guru, Guru Gobind Singh |
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| the holiest shrine of Sikhism. It is located in Amritsar, and was founded by the fourth Guru, Guru Ram Das. (founded in 1604) |
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| the scriptures of Sikhism |
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| another name for the Adi Granth, literally meaning “Sir Teacher Book.” |
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| literally, “door of the Teacher” – the name given to a Sikh temple. |
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| the community kitchen (that serves the poor) |
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| community service that is important to the Sikh tradition |
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| shaman a member of society who is tasked with leading a community through ecstatic experience. The shamanic mystical vocation and his subsequent magico-religious powers are initiated by a crisis, often of a psychopathological nature—a sick man who has been cured, a neurotic or even psychotic who can now swim in these waters instead of being drowned by them. |
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| the use of séances, drumming, narcotics and psychotropic plants |
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| from Latin sanctus or "holy," is an individual who embodies in a socially recognized way the values and ideals of a religious tradition; it is originally of Christian origin as a word, but “saints” can be found in many religions; they are often believed to be the source of religious power and so are treated as mediators between the human and the divine |
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| the person whose job it is to test the case of the canon lawyer advancing the cause of sainthood |
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| body parts often held to be especially powerful and efficacious |
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| a dimension of any religious tradition that attempts, through ritual, bodily and mental practices and doctrine, to transcend the dualities of the tradition in an intense experience of communion or union that often must be kept "secret" |
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| the doctrine of the [creation of the] world |
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| a branch of philosophy and theology dealing with the ultimate destination of humanity or the universe. Eschatologists are concerned with death, judgment, heaven, and hell. It is “the doctrine of the end [of the world],” here read as either the end of the person’s life or the end of the cosmos. |
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| near death experience characterized as “leaving the body.” |
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| cases of the reincarnation type as defined by Ian Stevenson |
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