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| It is the realm wherein one encounters or at least makes connection with what the tradition takes to be ultimate reality. It is the "inside" which qualifies insiders as "insiders." |
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| The state of being at-one with what is taken to be ultimate reality. |
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| Neutral statements, not being "inside" and not being "outside" views as a scholar. |
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| central (or primary) story |
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| it is the story of the founding or establishment of the tradition |
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| The action of entering into the system of symbols of a religious tradition and thus the "other world" of a tradition. i.e. becoming an insider. |
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| do full justice to the understanding and experience of the insider on developing a full or rounded understanding of the object. |
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| be able to relate to someones struggle. Understand practices more, less judgmental. |
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| Pertaining to the end of history as we know it, sometimes spoken as the end of time |
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| a religion with a past, it looks at a previous time and seeks to be there. Wanting to be that way when Jesus was there. |
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| The awesome, infinite standard of righteousness, justice, and inward beauty that God in Western religions is understood both to set or establish and to be by his very being. |
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| A striving to draw near to the object of investigation at the point where all relevant perspectives on it intersect, thus to comprehend it in its transcendence beyond any one perspective in a way that commands the recognition of those who dwell within them and know them well |
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| if you have God, you don't have to rely on anyone. Don't need anything else. |
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| the person-like character of God |
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| ritual act, religious symbol that represents some aspect. |
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| The respect in which events in human experience from time to time in a variety of different ways pose a threat to the ultimate meaningfulness of life and disclose a felt dis-relationship between the persons feeling that threat and what is taken to be ultimate reality |
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| A human spokesperson for God, allegedly chosen and enabled by God to declare and make known his revelation to human beings, which revelation typically involves (in part at least) some divine moral expectation that needs to be heeded to get in right relationship with God. |
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| Anything which refers to and thus represents something pertaining to "ultimate reality." |
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| the universal and eternal message of divine revelation is accessible only in and through the particular historical and culturally specific circumstances in which it is held to have originally been given |
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| The complex of stories, scriptures, rituals, symbolic forms, and particular vocabulary for referring to what is taken to be ultimate reality. |
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| One of two tests of candidates for empathetically objective interpretations of religious phenomena. Its purpose is to test how well one's interpretation has captured and conveyed an insider's perspective |
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| One of two tests of candidates for empathetically objective interpretations of religious phenomena. Its purpose is to test how well one's interpretation is disengaged from the expression of one's own personal attitude, orientation, and judgment toward the phenomena. |
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| An entryway whereby one crosses the boundary from being outside the "other world" of a tradition to being inside it |
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| a change in appearance and experience of religious symbols as one crosses the threshold. |
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| whatever the people of a given tradition take to be the ultimate ground of meaning and purpose in life- |
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| relationship with religion to take you to ultimate reality. |
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| personal relationship, personal path |
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| It typically involves systematic study of a tradition's scripture and previous attempts to articulate what is ultimately the case |
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| Concerted effort to bring all of life, individual and communal, into conformity with the way things are ultimately supposed to be (however understood)-- |
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| Participation in the sacred archetypal patterns through which "ultimate reality" is understood by participants to be manifest, by means of symbolic ritual enactments or presentations that enable participants repeatedly to enter their presence, attain at-onement for the moment with them, and thereby have established and renewed their sense of meaningful order, identity, and propriety |
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| way of shamanic mediation |
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| altered state of conciseness |
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| Bible edited in different ways. The first five of the Bible were not written by Moses, but by four independent writers. |
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