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| The state of being at-one with what is taken to be ultimate reality. |
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| The separating of an empathetic description of a religious phenomenon from the speaker's or writer's own person -- putting it in neutral, as it were -- so that the phenomenon may be observed, understood |
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| central (or primary) story |
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the most important story of all the stories that are told
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| primarily the religions originating in India (Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism) and China (Taoism, Confucianism) |
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| the effort to take into account and do full justice to the understanding and experience of the insider |
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| An act of imaginatively stepping into another person's perspective and considering how things look from over there |
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Pertaining to the end of history as we know it, sometimes spoken as the end of time
cosmic judgment of persons in relation to the expectations of God |
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| A religious tradition which conceives itself to have originated in a revelation of "ultimate reality" intervening in human history through certain particular events, |
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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. This is a characteristic of "ultimate reality" |
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| the belief in only one God |
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