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| a person who claims, with respect to any particular question, that the answer cannot be known with certainty |
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| In Hinduism and Buddhism seen as bringing upon oneself inevitable results, good or bad, either in this life or in a reincarnation |
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| Money, food, or other donations given to the poor or needy; anything given as charity |
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| a collective agricultural settlement in modern Israel, owned and administered communally by its members and on which children are reared collectively |
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| discrimination against or prejudice or hostility toward Jews |
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| the conception that there is one causal factor in history; the notion of a single element as primary determinant of behavior, social action, or institutional relations. |
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| a total desertion of or departure from one's religion, principles, party, cause, etc. |
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| the doctrine or belief that there is only one god |
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| the doctrine or belief that there is no god. |
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| characterized by or expressive of a concern with morality |
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| in Judaism, "male person who has completed his 13th year and thus reached the age of religious responsibility," or his ceremony. |
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| a person who claims to attain, or believes in the possibility of attaining, insight into mysteries transcending ordinary human knowledge, as by direct communication with the divine or immediate intuition in a state of spiritual ecstasy |
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| a solemn ceremony, chiefly among Reform and conservative Jews, that is held in the synagogue on Friday night or Saturday morning to admit formally as an adult member of the Jewish community a girl 12 to 13 years old. |
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| freedom from the endless cycle of personal reincarnations, with their consequent suffering, as a result of the extinction of individual passion, hatred, and delusion |
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| impious utterance or action concerning god or sacred things. |
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| sound or correct in opinion or doctrine, especially theological or religious doctrine |
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| the ultimate and impersonal divine reality of the universe, from which all being originates and to which it returns |
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| any doctrine that regards God as identical with the material universe or the forces of nature |
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| the title of the successors of Mohammed as rulers of the Islamic world, later assumed by the Sultans of Turkey |
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| a short allegorical story designed to illustrate or teach some truth, religious principle, or moral lesson. |
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| To regard as holy and or document in scriptural works. |
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| versed or occupied with philosophy. |
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| to sing or chant, especially in a religious service |
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| a journey, especially a long one, made to some sacred place as an act of religious devotion |
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| generous donations or actions to aid the poor, ill, or helpless |
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| a condition or place in which the souls of those dying penitent are purified from venial sins or undergo the temporal punishment that after the guilt of the mortal sin has been remitted still remains to be endured by the sinner. |
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| change from one religion, political belief, viewpoint, etc., to another. |
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| belief in or worship of more than one god |
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| An agreement that brings about a relationship of commitment between God and his people. |
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| A person regarded as an inspired teacher or proclaimer of the will |
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| A relatively small group of people having a system of religious veneration and devotion directed toward a particular figure or object |
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| The rebirth of a soul in a new body |
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| Virtue, righteousness, and duty, esp. social and caste duty in accord with the cosmic order |
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| A group of people with somewhat different religious beliefs (typically regarded as heretical) from those of a larger group to which they belong that have been separated from that larger group. |
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| The dispersion of any people (mainly Jews in this context) from their original homeland (being Israel. |
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| the transformation of a society from close identification with religious values and institutions toward non-religious (or "irreligious") values and secular institutions. |
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| A principle or set of principles laid down by an authority as incontrovertibly true |
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| A place regarded as holy because of its associations with a divinity or a sacred person or relic, typically marked by a building or other construction |
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| The action or state of attaining or having attained spiritual knowledge or insight, in particular (in Buddhism) that awareness which frees a person from the cycle of rebirth |
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| The merging or attempted merging of different religions, |
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| Complete trust or confidence in someone or something (usually referring to religious trust or confidence in a God) |
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| An assembly of the clergy and sometimes also the laity in a diocese or other division of a particular church |
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| The Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca that takes place in the last month of the year, and that all Muslims are expected to make at least once during their lifetime |
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| the collection of ancient rabbinic writings on Jewish law and tradition (the Mishna and the Gemara) that constitute the basis of religious authority in Orthodox Judaism |
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| Belief in or worship of one deity without denying the existence of other deities |
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| A principle or belief, esp. one of the main principles of a religion |
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| Belief or opinion contrary to orthodox religious (esp. Christian) doctrine |
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| Beyond or above the range of normal or merely physical human experience |
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| the seat of final authority for the entire Roman Catholic Church located in Rome and positioned under the headship of the pope |
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| The conversion of the substance of the Eucharistic elements into the body and blood of Christ at consecration, only the appearances of bread and wine still remaining. A change in form or substance of something. |
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| A painting of Jesus Christ or another holy figure, typically in a traditional style on wood, venerated and used as an aid to devotion in the Byzantine and other Eastern Churches |
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| A member of the lowest-caste Hindu group or a person outside the caste system |
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| An image or representation of a god used as an object of worship |
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| The person who leads prayers in a mosque. A title of various Muslim leaders, esp. of one succeeding Muhammad as leader of Shiite Islam |
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| the concept that deity is very much associated with creation, is all-present in the world, and is close to believers |
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| a holy war waged by Muslims against infidels. |
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| What is the difference between a religion which considers themselves Philosophical verses one that is considered Moralistic? |
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| Philosophical religion is based on knowledge, reality, and science whereas Moralistic religion is based on Morales. |
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