Hum 130 Appendix C Vocabulary Quiz

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Appendix C

HUM 130 Week 1 Vocabulary Quiz

| Define these terms in your own words. |
1. Immanent | Immanent is what we can experience in the world we live in. |
2. Religion | Is the belief in a god, gods, the divine or the supernatural, and that these forces dictate the events of our existence. |
3. Theistic | These are religions that are based on the belief that one can have a relationship with a divine being. |
4. Monotheistic | Monotheistic is when one worships an believes that there is only one divine being |
5. Profane | Profane is used to describe the regular everyday occurrences of life, which seem unimportant. |
6. Polytheistic | Is the belief that there is more than one god or divine beings or things. |
7. Monistic | Is the belief that everything in created in the consciousness, and consciousness comes before everything else. |
8. Dogma | |
9. Nontheistic | Notheistic is the belief that things are the way they are and that no divine being created the here and now. |
10. Transcendent | Transcendent is believing that things are present outside our material world, such as having faith that there is a god. |
11. Incarnations | Incarnations are believed to happen when something normally unseen such as a divine being show itself through a visual and material form. |
12. Kensho | Kensho is a name for an awakening or enlightenment. It is a realization of one’s religious or spiritual beliefs. |
13. Atheism | This is the belief that there are no creators and that we are here because or scientifically explainable methods. |
14. Agnosticism | Is basically the belief that if there is a divine being we would be unable to comprehend it or that one is simply unsure of whether they believe in the divine or not. |
15. Rituals | These are worship methods that are repeated over and over again rather than spontaneously.   |
16. Symbols | Material or worldly images that are used to represent things that are... [continues]

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