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Intro to World Religons-part 1
the 3 major monotheist religons-Judism, Christianity, and Islam
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Religious Studies
Undergraduate 2
11/22/2012

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Catholic
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Who founded the earliest conception of Anglicanism?
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King Henry VIII
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Islam
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Muslim
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Christianity
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Clergy
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Bishop
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Priest
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Pope
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Suffism
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Torrah
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Judism
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The Dead Sea Scrolls were written by:
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Who is Abraham?
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Who is Eziekiel (Judism)?
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What is Yom kimpor?
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What are the 3 main monotheist faiths?
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Judism, Christianity, Islam.
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What is a Barmitzvuh?
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What is Rashashan?
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How do muslims refer to 'God'?
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Allah.
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What are Prophets?
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Liturgy
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Orthodox.
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Unorthodox
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CHURCH OF THE HOLY SEPULCHRE is in:
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Jerusulam.
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Sacred geomenty

Labyrinth

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Floor
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Mother Anne lee

 

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Founder of the Shakers
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Emma Curtis hopkins
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New Thought Movment.
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Mary Baker Eddy
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Founder of Christien Science
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Joeseph Smith
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CHURCH OF THE LATTER DAY SAINTS - MORMONISM
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ECUMENISM:
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refers to initiatives aimed at greater Christian unity or cooperation, between Christian denominations.
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SYNCRETISM:
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is the combining of different beliefs, often while melding practices of various schools of thought and various religious traditions
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FUNDAMENTALISM:
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strict adherence to specific theological doctrines usually understood as a reaction against modernity
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why was Vatician ii council so importent?
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"[Vatican II] was the most important [event] because... above all it sought to meet pastoral needs and, nourishing the flame of charity, it has made a great effort to reach not only the Christians still separated from communion with the Holy See, but also the whole human family." ( Pope Paul VI)
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Black theology
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chrietien based theology that speaks as a theology that moves towards black liberation against whoite rasicism.
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CHRISTIAN FEMINIST THEOLOGY
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a reliegious movement that seeks to make men and women equal in the church. complete understanding of Christianity cannot take place without women.
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CHRISTIAN FEMINIST THEOLOGY main mission is to:
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ordination of women, and a gender transcendent vision of the Divine.
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Despite the large population of Christians in North America, there is a huge problem of:
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lack of particapation and attendence at church today.
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Already today, the largest Christian communities on the planet are to be found in
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Africa and Latin America
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Shahada
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withness
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what are the four Salat?
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Adhan (call for prayer)
Wudu’ (ritual purification)
Qiblah (direction of prayer)
Jum’ah (Ar. “assembly”; communal Friday prayer)
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Salat
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ritual prayer
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Zakat
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alms giving
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Ramadan fast
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–‘Id al-Fitr (“Festival of breaking the fast”)
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Hajj
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pilgremegge, also the festival of sacrifice
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Salam
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peace
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shalom
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peace
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Semitic languages:
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Hebrew--Aramaic--Arabic
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Scripturalist religions:
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people of the book
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Umm al-Kitab
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mother of the book
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Muhammad as the restorer of the
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original faith of Abraham and as the sealer of prophets
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Prophets
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Noah. Abraham, Moses, Jesus, Muhammad
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Abraham as “the father of faith” (3 things)
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–The original muslim and hanif (“righteous one”/monotheist)
–Sacrifice of his son Isma’il (Heb. “Ishmael), the ancestor of the Arabs
–Restorer of the Ka’ba (along with Isma’il)
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Aggadah
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ancedotal or narrative material in the talmund.
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apocolypse
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latin for revelation. it is the final battle between the darness and the light at the end of time.
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apocolyptic literature lurished when?
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the hellenistic era
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ashkenaism
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Jews of northeren and Eateren Europe
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Bar Mitzvah
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means 'son of commandments' given to a 13 yearold boy when he is initiatedinto adult ritual.
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cantor
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the ones who leds musical chants in synagog services.
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Diaspora
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means 'disperse'. it refers to the dispersment of hte jewish people, and began with the babylonian exile.
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Documentry hypothisis
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the theory that the pentadeuch wa not written by moses but was compiled by multiple sources over a long period of time.
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Exile
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the deportation of Jewish leaders from jerusulim.
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Exodus
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the migration of hebrews from Eygypt under moses. the birth of the isrealites.
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Gemarah
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the body of Aramiach commentary attached ot the hebrew text of the mishnah
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what makes up the talmund?
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Mishnah and gemarah
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Haggadah
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the liturgy of the passover supper
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hallakah
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legal material in the talmond
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hasidim
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pious ones. the mystically inclined followers of Baal shem tov.
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