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Religion 150 - Ashley Sears
Exam 3
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Religious Studies
Undergraduate 3
04/19/2011

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Term

Ways & Goals

 

Mahayana Amid Buddhism

Definition
Grace Through Faith
Term

Ways & Goals

 

"The merit monger refuse to receive God's grace freely..."

Definition
Grace through faith
Term
Most in Common - Soteriologically
Definition

Theravada Buddhism & Yoga of Patanjali

 

Islam & Classical Hinduism

 

Hindu Bhakti and Muslim Sufis

Term

Ways & Goals

 

Hindu Bhakti

Definition
Way of Devotion
Term

Ways and Goals

 

Amitabha [amida]

Definition

grace through faith

 

the Buddha of infinite light who dwells in the Western paradise

Term
Martin Luther
Definition

Protestant Christianity 

grace through faith - free gift

Term
Mahayan
Definition

Buddhism

 

the greater vehicle

 

Term
Shinran
Definition

grace through faith

buddhism

human beings cannot do good works, everything humans do is corrupted with selfishness 

Term
Bodhistvas
Definition

earn and transfer men to others

buddhism

grace through faith

Term
Soteriology
Definition
Salvation
Term
Ectasy
Definition

outside oneself 

to stand outside 

Term
Code of Manu
Definition
Orthodox Hinduism
Term
The four castes
Definition
priest, warriors, farmers/producers, laborers
Term
Mitxvah
Definition

Jewish, action and obligation 

commandments / rituals

Term
Bar Mitzvah
Definition
Jewish rite of passage
Term
Samadhi
Definition

union absorption, full comprehension

 

meditation 

Term
Eupsychia
Definition

good-mind

 

Maslow

 

Physic Wholeness

Term

Lutheranism

 

Mahayana Amid Buddhism of Japan

Definition
Grace through faith
Term

Christian Mystic

St. Theresa of Avila

Hindu bhakti

Definition
Devotion
Term
Judaism, Islam, Classical Hinduism
Definition
Action and Obligation
Term

Yoga Techniques of Patanjali

 

Theravada Buddhism

Definition
Meditation and Philosophical Insight
Term

Abraham Maslow

 

Eusphychia

Definition
Physic Wholeness
Term

Ancient Israel

 

Hebrew Bible

Definition
Restored social order
Term

Ancient Greece / Eygpt

Post-Biblical Jadaism

Christianity

Definition
Resurrection, Immortality, Eternal Life
Term

Hindu Samadhi

Buddhist Nirvana

Sunyata

Definition
Samadhi, Nirvana, Sunyata
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coercion
Definition
forced to do something
Term
humans are fundamentally
Definition
lazy
Term
freud thinks religion is an..
Definition
illusion
Term
epistemic
Definition
illusion as opposed to knowledge
Term
instinctual satisfaction
Definition
food, going to the bathroom
Term
utopia
Definition
no such place, everything is perfect
Term
The aspects of human consciousness that pertains to the awarenss we have of ourselves and of the immediate object of attention and awareness 
Definition
concious thought
Term
pre-consciousness awareness
Definition
what we can bring to consciousness when we want it
Term
unconsciousness
Definition

The aspect of human consciousness that pertains to feelings, moods

physical urges: eat, drink, sleep sex

repressed memories and feelings

Term
Id
Definition

"it" unconscious drives and urges

pleasures and aggression

Term
Ego
Definition

"I" the reality principle

choosing center / reality principle

balances superego and the id

Term
Superego
Definition

"I above" conscience

attitudes and expectations of family and society 

morals

Term
Oral Phase
Definition

0-18 months

mothers milk

Term
Anal phase
Definition

18m-3 years

potty training

Term
phallic phase
Definition

3-6years

figuring out your parts

Term
latency
Definition
6-puberty
Term
adult sexual capacities
Definition
fixations, regressions, and sublimation
Term
ambivalence
Definition
two meanings, love and hate, good and bad
Term
instinct renunciation
Definition

postpone gradification

painful

Term
society must provide..
Definition

compensation

ex: morality, cultural ideas, art, religion

Term
Zen Satori
Definition
psychic wholeness
Term
Privation
Definition
condition produced when a person has renounced her instincts 
Term
the former
Definition

prohibitions that affect everyone

 

ex, insest, cannibalism, killing

Term
prohibition
Definition
the rule
Term
moral codes, art, religion
Definition
reconcile and recompensation
Term
internalization
Definition
accept the expectations
Term
St. Theresa
Definition
Christian mystic - way of devotion
Term
code of manu
Definition
classical hinduism / action and obligation
Term
compensation
Definition
lessen the pain of instinct renunciation
Term
oedipus complex
Definition

super-daddy

ambivalent

Term
castration complex
Definition
derived from fathers dominance 
Term
sublimation
Definition
acceptance of socially approved ways to act from the pyschic motivational power of instinctual urges
Term
illusion
Definition

wish fulfillemtn

not an error

 

Term
delusion
Definition

logically impossible

 

Term
religion
Definition

universal psychological neurosis

not realistic / not true

regression in development

illusion

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[image]
Definition
Term
[image]
Definition

Mt. Fuji

Sacred Mountain

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[image]
Definition

Mt. Kawagebo

Buddhist, Tibet

Term
[image]
Definition

San Fran Peaks

Sacred moutain to the Hopi and other native american people

Term
[image]
Definition

Ka'ba

Most sacred place in Islam

Term
[image]
Definition

Mt. Sinai

Sacared moutain 

Jewish, Christian, and Muslim

Term
[image]
Definition

Lourdes 

Christian Sacred Place

Term
[image]
Definition

Salt Lake Temple

Christian Sacred Place

Term
[image]
Definition

Vatican St Peters Square

Christian Sacred Place

Term
[image]
Definition
Buddhist Stupa
Term
[image]
Definition

Buddhist Stupa

India

Term
[image]
Definition

Buddhist Pagoda

China, Japan and Vietnam

Term
[image]
Definition

Buddhist Pagoda

China, Japan and Vietnam

Term
Amaterasu
Definition

Japanese Shinto

sun goddess that represents nature worship

Term
Sol Invictus
Definition
invincible sun god
Term
The root cause of humanitys main problem viewed by Judaism and Christianity
Definition
perverse will and a hardened heart
Term
What is Science?
Definition
A reasoning process that moves from observation of measurable facts, to the formation of testable hypotheses, to experimental testing of the hyptheses.
Term
Empiricism
Definition
The primary source of our knowledge is the physical senses.
Term
Predictability
Definition
The physical world is orderly, exsting in stable cause and effect relatonships.
Term
Objectivity
Definition
We can study the physical world outside of us without subjectivite bias.
Term
unity
Definition
the world is unified such that laws which hold in one place, also hold in similar places.
Term
materialism
Definition
the belief that everything in the universe is physical matter
Term
Transcendence
Definition

"above or apart from"

(outside, beyond)

 

-dualism

-monotheism

Term
immanence
Definition

"to dwell within"

(inside, within)

 

-animism

-pantheism

Term
Cosmology
Definition
The structure of the cosmos
Term
Cosmogony
Definition
The origination/genesis/coming to be of the cosmos
Term
Animism
Definition
all if reality is alive, possesing a soul or spirit including otherwise inanimate things like rocks and grasses
Term
Monotheism
Definition

belief in one personal transcendent creator God as opposed to many gods.

 

-Judaism

-Islam

-Christianity

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Panentheism
Definition
The world is God. Particular beings in the world are manifestations of God. However, there is an "aspect" of God that is not manifest in the world
Term
Polytheism
Definition
There are many different Gods and no single unifying power or principle.
Term
Pantheism
Definition
The world is God. Particular beings (things) in the world, including totality of the world are manifestations of God. (The universe and God are one)
Term
Dualism
Definition
There are 2 principles or beings who order the world.
Term
"Religion is the belief in an ever-living God..."
Definition

James Martineau

-Christian

 

(considered to specific)

Term
"Religion is that grows out of, and gives expression to..."
Definition

Rudolf Otto

 

(too focuced on feelings)

Term
"Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern..."
Definition

Paul Tillich

 

(very general and focused on emotion)

Term
"Religion centers upon an awareness and response to a reality that transceds ourselves..."
Definition
John Hick
Term
"Religion is a realistic story created by the wealthy... to justify the status quo to the poor..."
Definition
Karl Marx
Term
"Religion is that system of activities and beliefs directed toward and in response to that which is preceived to be of sacred value and transforming power."
Definition
James Livingston
Term
"Religion is (1) a system... (2)establish powerful..."
Definition
Clifford Geertz
Term
Golgotha
Definition

Jerusalem

-Christians

Term
Axis Mundi
Definition
Center of the world
Term
Imago mundi
Definition
image of an original world order
Term
symbol
Definition
A word, image, place, thing which mediates the sacred/holy
Term
myth
Definition
Stories which explain and legitimize a societys basic values
Term
Doctrine
Definition
Second order (reflective) conceptual interpretation of first order symbols and myths
Term
"He who dwelling in the earth.. in the waters… in the fire… in the atmosphere… the wind… the sky… he who dwelling in all things,… whom all things do not know, whose body all things are..."
Definition
pantheism
Term
“As the bees, my dear, prepare honey by collecting the essence of different types of trees..." 
Definition
Hinduism
Term
Manichaeism is a form of 
Definition
conflictual dualism
Term
For stoicism, the primary experience which causes human beings the most anxiety 
Definition

the experience that the world is fundamentally chaotic, with no real reason, structure, or order.

Term
For Theravada Buddhism, the cause of the fundamental experiential problem 
Definition

mistaken belief that the individual human being has a permanent, stable self or identity whose needs and desires must be met in order to be happy

 

Term
The aspects of human consciousness that pertains to memories, beliefs and intentions that people are not specifically
Definition
Preconscious thoughts
Term
Instinct Renunciation
Definition

I must postpone gratification of my instinctual desires in order to live in close proximity with other people

Term
Frustration
Definition
instinct cannot be satisfied
Term
Prohibition
Definition
the rule or regulation which causes frustration
Term
Privation
Definition
the condition which is produced by the frustration
Term
Hermeneutics
Definition
the principles and rules of textual and linguistic interpretations
Term
Scripture
Definition

is a text which is set apart as especially normative for worship, teaching and doctrine and as a guide for daily life.

Term
Hadith
Definition
sacred texts that belong to Muslim
Term
Analects
Definition
 Confucius 
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