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| Conflict Model (religion) |
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| Science and Religion are at war and Religion is always right. |
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| Science and Religion are at war and Science is always right. |
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| Science and Religion are different and don't really interact with each other. |
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| Integration Model/Complementary Model |
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| Science and Religion compliment each other; both ways of thinking are necessary in order to full understand the world. |
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| Set of methods designed to understand observable and measurable phenomena in a certain way. |
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| The primary source of our knowledge is the physical senses. |
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| The physical world is orderly, existing in stable cause and effect relationships. |
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| We can study the physical world outside of us without a subjective bias. |
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| The world is unified such that laws hold in one place, also hold in other similar places. |
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| Belief in an everliving God, that is, in a Divine Mind and will ruling the universe and holding moral relations with [hu]mankind. |
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| Religion is that which grows out and gives expression to, experience of the holy in its various aspects. |
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Religion is the recognition of all our [ethical] duties as divine commmands.
Kant identifies religion with ethical obligations, Religion is a way of looking at ethics. |
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| Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of the meaning of our life. |
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| Religion centers upon an awareness and response to a reality that transcends ourselves and our world whether the direction of transcendance be beyond or within or both...this object is characterized more generally as a cosmic power, or more specifically as a personal God. |
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| Religion is an infantile illusion. |
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| Religion is that a system of activities and beliefs directed toward and in response to that which is perceived to be of sacred value and transforming power. |
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| Forms of expressing meaning (they point beyond themselves). |
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| Distinction between more signaling and human symbolizing. |
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| Symptoms or natural reminders (indicates existance) |
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| Special kinds of signs (Talking ABOUT existing things) |
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| Tie together things and distinct even when there may not be any natural or symptoms in connection with the symbols and the thing symbolized. |
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| Disclosed aspects of the Budda Spirit. |
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| First Order Religious Discourse |
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| Second Order Religious Discourse |
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| Distinctive form of symbolic communication. |
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| Religion is a realistic story created and disseminated by the wealthy and powerful to justify the status quo to the poor and weak in order to inhibit the poor and weak from rebelling against the status quo. Religion is the sign of the oppressed creature; the opiate of the masses. |
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| Most religions up to this point were animistic or polytheistic. |
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| Zeus-Head of Greek Pantheon. |
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| A form of polytheism, as seen in Homer, featuring one triumphant and superior God. |
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| Discovery of agriculture radically changed the nature of religious life from that of the previous era of Paleolithic hunters. |
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| Associated as it was with the themes of deaths and rebirth, had deep human appeal and spread far beyond Egypt. |
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| Personifies the ceaseless movement of the seasons, life coming to fruitio, its decline in the summer heat, its death, and its restoration again in the spring time. |
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| Render devotion to all that is associated with the eternal female, which often is perceived as THE active principle of the universe. |
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| Common, ordinary experience |
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| A condition of being pured, clean unblemished. |
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| Pollution, impurity, dirty. |
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Something to be avoided (usually accompanied by visceral (dislike).
Ex) VIsceral sense of disgust. |
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| Manifestation of the Holy/Sacred. |
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| Arjuna's vision of Vishnu (Hindu-Baghavad Gita) Hinduism. |
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| Mount Zion (Jerusalem), Golgotha (Jerusalem), the Ka'ba (Mecca) |
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| Most sacred place to Muslims. |
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| Image of an original world order "backward vision". |
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| A word, image, place, thing, etc., which mediates the sacred/holy. |
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| Explains or legitimates phenemenon/societys basic values. |
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| Second order (reflective) conceptual interpretation. Explains what myth means. |
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| An agreed-on and formalized pattern of ceremonial movements and verbal expressions carried out in a sacred context. |
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| Pervasive types of rituals |
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| Seasonal rituals; life cycle rituals; rites of passage. |
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| Triumph; victory; strength. |
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| Harvest, old age, knowing we're headed to long, dense nights. |
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| Written text. Conveys sacred meaning. |
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| Principles for interpreting sacred texts. |
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Interpretive meaning. Ex) Jews and Christians.
Vocalization and Sound. Ex) Quran, Vedas, Sutras. |
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| A list of authorative texts. (Scriptures) |
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1. Dharma is the refuge, not the man.
2. The meaning is the refuge, not the letter.
3. Those sutras which are direct in meaning are the refuge, not those which are in direct in meaning.
4. Direct intuition is the refuge, not discursive thought. |
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| Belief that the physical world is made of two fundamental realities and these realities are complimentary. |
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| Religious institution tells me to do something ex) because Jesus did it. Jesus legitimates praying before meals because he did it. |
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| Set of practices and beliefs which are predictable related. (Interconnections that we can predict) ex) families, institutions, judicial systems, money, economics). |
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| feeling, behavior, etc. ex) pass the salt-cognitive behavior. |
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| Human beings create meanings; we create them and believe something oustide the dome has told us what to do. |
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| Hasn't thought about why things are the way they are. They just participate. |
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| Questioned why they are participating in something and why the world is the way it is. |
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