literally means the absense of order and law (pg 173)

• Peter Berger's The Sacred Canopy discusses that it is precisely the chaos of life, especially diasater and suffering that inspires the social construction of religious worlds. Life without explainations of spirit and divinity are meaningless and people hunger for explanation

literally means divine justice (pg 173)

• why God or gods creates suffering for their beloved humans
• many theodicies have nothing to do with God or gods
• Peter Berger says its any religious effort to make sense of suffering in the face of the Sacred

an encounter with the Holy that leaves the believer with a sense that he must carryout a special mission

(pg 284)

spiritual uplifting outside oneself (pg 288)

• where we get the word ecstasy from
• one of the two words to express differences in religious experience
• "in ecstacy one meets the glorious 'other'"

submerging within one's own consciousness (pg 288)

• experience deep within one's consciousness
• "in enstasy one goes to find the Sacred in one's own identity, deep within oneself"

the application of an experience only to the person, the "subject", who had the experience (pg 296)

• subjective experience cannot be measured by external objective means
• subjective experiences are pain, happiness, love and peace

objectivity

the application of a claim or experience to a reality outside the person, application to the "object" and not only the subject of the experience (pg 296)

• objective experiences can be assessed by external means

"right belief" (pg 301)

• ex. Eastern Orthodox Church
• may help define orthopathos

"right practice" (pg 301)

• ex. Orthodox Juddism

"right experience" (pg 301)

• ex. Penecostal Christian
• to refer to a religion's view of what is the right kind of experience

study or analysis of salvation, explaining a religion's view of how salvation occurs and what it acheives

(pg 314)

• an intergrated theory of what salvation means and how it is achieved

the concept is simply that salvation is given like a gift flowing from the unearned love of God, and it must be accepted like a gift, not worked for like a reward.

• mostly found in Christianity (Paul)
• contradicts normal soteriologies that say you must earned your way into heaven
• found in other places in the world not as strong as in the Christian religion

define their own membership as individuals who choose to join at a specific point in time (pg 340)

• this applies in conversion of religion

membership is simply given; one may be simply 'born into' the community - one did not join at a given time nor was one really given a choice

• fundamental example is Judaism, if you descend from a Jewish mother, you are Jewish

involves religious beliefs, practices and rules that are absorbed from 'outside' of the individual (pg 352)

• something recieved from others

involves religious beliefs, practices and ethical principles that result from a person critically examining religious views that, in turn, become a part of a person's religious makeup.

• functions from within a person

involves those froms of religious expression that stress their own uniqueness, along with a desrie to remain seperate from other religions and their cultural expressions. (pg 378)

• retain and protect, even spread and defend the unique claims of a specific religion, resisting the temptation to dilute the exclusive truth claims and evangelistic mission of particular religions
• they say we may all want world peace but we must defend our religious beliefs in the process

a socio-religious reaction to modernism and globalization that stresses the uniqueness of a particular religious tradition, rejects selected aspects of the contemporary and propses its vision of a religiously based society as a solution to the perceived inadequacies of contemporary culture. (pg 378)

• anit-globalization
• a branch of religious particularism

1. Divine can be inpersonal, sacred order that governs the universe and human destiny

2. Divine can be understood as prayer that is holy and must be approached all proper preperations

3. Divine as an all ambracing one, the ulitmate unity and goal of the mystical quest

4. Divine as an individual or self transcending the world and humans but is in relations to humans