Confucius

Ren

right thing at the right time under the right circumstances. With Ren, this produces harmony

·       800 to 200 BCE, time of revolutionary thinking in Asia

·       Hindu god who is immanent, eternal, unchanging and divine spirit of everything in and out of this universe

·       Yoruban name for God

·       medieval Jewish philosopher and Torah scholar

·       domestic ritual (in house)

·       Spirit of change and open mindedness in Vatican

·       ritual washing

·       a story, usually fictional, that makes an instructive point. Every character and incident in the story stands for or represents a reality outside the story itself

·       sun goddess; clan ancestor to the Japanese imperial family

·       “no images”; referring to traditions that do not encourage visual imagery in religion

·       in Christianity, the sacrament employing water for the forgiveness of sins

·       the ceremony by which a young person becomes a “son” of the commandments

·       the “song of the Lord”; one of the scriptures of Hinduism

·       one who achieves enlightenment but postpones Nirvana in the interest of bringing truth to the world

·       the religious tradition founded on the teaching and example of the Buddha

·       “measuring reed”; list of authoritative scriptures in a particular tradition

·       the system of division of labor in Hinduism

Christ

·       anointed servant of God

·       religious tradition founded on the teaching, example, and person of Jesus

·       great religious- political tradition of China founded by Confucious

·       ways of thinking that attempt to relate the various aspects of the universe

·       religious group founded by charismatic leader that claims it has a new revelation or insight that perfects, changes, or invigorates an older tradition; and that is viewed with extreme suspicion by the older, more established religious traditions

·       views of time; emphasizes that the eternal repetition of time, as in samsara, or the repetition of the change of seasons

·       from Greek, “that which is binding”; refers to approach to ethics based on duties

·       originally “giving thanks”; holy communion or Lord’s supper

·       the process of drawing out or interpreting the meaning of texts

·       liberation of Hebrews from slavery in Egypt. Also, second book of Bible

·       referring to definitions of religion that stress the role of religion in human responses to suffering, death, despair, and the like

·       freely given gift in Christianity, humans are saved by this

·       “narrative”; sacred stories in Jewish tradition

·       the predominant religious tradition in India

·       leader of prayer in Islam, for Shi’i Islam, also a divinely designated leader of the religious community

·       the “becoming flesh” of the sacred, especially in Christianity

·       Jesus of Nazareth, founder of Christianity, Christ

·       discipline of knowledge of the true nature of God and the self

·       religion of the Jewish people

·       the ancient, cubical structure outside Mecca; holy to Muslims as the place of worship constructed by Abraham and his son Ishmael

·       Hebrew Bible uses this to describe God and things set apart by God’s choice

·       sacred beings and powers in Shinto

·       the discipline focusing on doing one’s caste duty in a spirit of detachment

·       - in Hinduism and Buddhism, the inexorable law of cause and effect

·       the condition of being in an intermediate state

·       views of time; deptiction of time as having a beginning, middle, and end

·       derived from a Greek word meaning “a public work”; in religion, refers to the form of public worship of a particular group

·       the “rightly guided one”; the equivalent for Muslims of the Messiah

·       God’s anointed or chosen servant

·       release or liberation from the world

·       ways of thinking, feeling, and acting that focus on concern for human welfare

·       month of memorial for martyrdom of Husayn, grandson Muhammad

·       aspects of religious traditions that focus on the appearance of the sacred to persons achieving a certain “enlightened” state of mind

·       indicated standard for right belief set by particular community

·       Orthopraxis- right practice

·       a story, usually fictional, in which the thrust of the story is to make a particular point but in which (by comparison of allegory) the characters do not “stand” for realities outside the story itself

·       making restitution for ethical impurities in order to be fit to approach the Sacred

·       process of giving reasons for judgments one makes

·       religious specialist associated with prophetic traditions

·       physical items associated with a holy person and preserved by believers for their connection with the sacred

Sabbath

·       day set apart for rest and remembrance of sacred in Judaism

·       “to make holy”; for example, by dedicating something to the sacred

·       the cycle of time governed by karma

·       ritual meal, part of Passover

·       Islamic religious law

·       minority tradition in Islam, prominent in Iran

·      i ndigenous religion of Japan

·       gate marking entry for a sacred place in Shinto

that which goes beyond or stands over, as in religious traditions which · present a notion of the sacred as transcending ordinary experience

·       movement of a soul or spirit from one existence to another

·       the “three baskets”; sacred scriptures in Buddhism

·       writings of Hindu sages, approximately 700-200 BCE

·       to show reverence of devotion for sacred

·       religious tradition originating in 7^th century BCE in Persia