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World Religions Test 3
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Religious Studies
Undergraduate 1
11/15/2012

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Hybridity
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The melding of indigenous practices with other religions
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Cosmogony
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LIfeway
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Mana
Definition
life-enhancing power that can be concentrated in people or objects. No personal deities.
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Shaman
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Priestly. endowed with power to contact the spiritual world
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Yoruba Religion
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Nigeria and Benin. 20 mil. Many deities.
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Olodumare/Olorun
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Yoruba High God
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Orishas
Definition
Other deities. 401 of them. Distinct sets of duties.
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Yoruba conceptions of human beings
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All humans have power called ashe.
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Yoruba Afterlife
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Reincarnation by our choice.
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Lakota
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Native American Religion in the Plains. Sacred land. Buffalo are sacred. Vision quests.
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Dreamtime/Dreaming
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Aboriginal: the memory of the primordial history of the world. When the ancestors shaped the world. Myths about local geography etc. How they were created.
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Totemism
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The use of totems, connected to rules about kinship, friendship, marriage, and warfare. It establishes social identity.
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Nongqawuse
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Had a vision that started the cattle killing movement, didn't come true and was put in prison
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Ghost Dance Movement
Definition
Militaristic resistance to native american colonization.
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Wokova
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Ghost Dance leader. Given special powers by god to revive the west.
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Wounded Knee
Definition
Cavalry came into Wounded Knee and tried to remove the weapons from the natives, a protest started and they opened fire, killing 300/350 Natives.
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The "Lost Generation"
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White government took aboriginal children from their families and declared them wards of the state.
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Confucianism
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More philosophical. Human relationships based on cosmic moral order.
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Confucius
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Leader of Confucianism, but was not popular until after his death.
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Tian
Definition
Heaven is a divine being that must be obeyed
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Five Relationships
Definition
Ruler/Official
Father/Son
Husband/Wife
Elder/Younger Siblings
Friend/Friend
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Analects
Definition
Book of Confucius' sayings
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Neo-Confucianism
Definition
Confucianism brought back w/ a stronger metaphysical system, believed that the individual was linked to a cosmic order and action would alter this order.
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Daoism
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Same time as Confucianism. Response to ritualistic china. Ancestor worship.
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The Daodejing
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Text attributed to a man name Laozi "old master". Poetic. Metaphysics, political theory, human philosophy. Uses riddles to express truths.
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The Dao
Definition
the Dao is both the source of creation as well as a force that permeates all life. It is an “energy” that creates and sustains. It cannot be known logically, however, and can only be known and understood through silence and experience.
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wuwei
Definition
non-action or non-interference. action without over-action. going with the flow.
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Daoist Schools
Definition
Celestial Master School. 2nd Century.
Complete Perfection. Largest school in china. Monastic and ascetic. Meditation and Alchemy.
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Daoist alchemy
Definition
Meditaion and breathing exercises. "inner alchemy"
Outer alchemy - seeking to transform metals into an elixer to ingest to give birth to a child whose body and soul are invincible to death and decay.
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Joseph Smith
Definition
confused about religion. wanted to know which church was right.
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First Vision
Definition
Prayed and was appeared to by the Father and the Son and was told that all the other churches were wrong and that he would restore the Church of Jesus Christ.
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Moroni
Definition
An angel that visited Smith and told him about the gold plates.
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Book of Mormon
Definition
Translation of the plates
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Reorganized Latter Day Saints
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No plural marriage. Lead by Joseph III, Leader must be a descendant.
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Brigham Young
Definition
leader of the larger coup. 3 polygamous marriages and publicized plural marriage. Lead the saints to Utah.
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The Mormon Battalion
Definition
Battalion connected to the support of the church. Never saw battle.
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Mountain Meadows Massacre
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Mormons killed 120 citizens that were traveling.
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Baptism for the dead
Definition
Living individuals are baptized in a temple ritual on behalf of someone else.
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Celestial Marriage
Definition
Married by the church and valid for all eternity. Necessary for mormon men to be exalted as gods of their own planets.
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Degrees of glory
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Afterlife. 3 degrees.
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Plural Marriage
Definition
Polygamy. Mormon men married to more than one woman.
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Mormon Fundamentalism
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Extreme Mormons
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Apocalypticism
Definition
The end times. Or Revelation, something occurred in them. Expressive and sometimes terrifying images the represented larger themes or historical events.
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Charles Taze Russel
Definition
Studied prophecies. About the second coming of christ. 144000 members of the church.
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Judge Joseph Rutherford
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became president after russel died. "new world society"
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Jehovah's Witnesses
Definition
New name for bible students, follow a specific god named Jehovah.
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New World Translation
Definition
Jehova version of the Bible. Including the word in places where it actually isn't in the bible. They don't use the cross because it has become an idol.
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Kingdom Halls
Definition
Place of worship
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L. Ron Hubbard
Definition
Founder of Scientology
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Dianetics
Definition
gets rid of unwanted sensations, unpleasant emotions and psychosomatic ill that block happiness.
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Auditing
Definition
Asking questions that get to the root of your problems and get a win or revelation.
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the Clear
Definition
The clear is someone free from engrams. They can be happy.
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Operating Thetan
Definition
One who handles things without having to use a body of physical means. Controls matter, energy, space and time.
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