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World Religions Study Guide
World Religions
REL 2300
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Definition of religion
Religion is belief that social norms, traditions, myths and symbols will impart wisdom, comfort, hope and balance and enable one to transcend death
Definition of church, denomination, sects, cults An official religion of a country or state Is a major societal religion in a country or state A small, anti social religion with a closed membership
A small, anti social religion with a closed membership, and a living charismatic founder
Founders of religious studies Sigmund freud- religion in a mere illusion
Shamans
Are people who are attuned to the spirit world of animals and people and deal with that world on behalf of others
Tocaboga's belief in three souls Their shadow, their image in a pond, and the pupil of their eye
Burial customs of Neanderthal Food, tools, and weapons left for the afterlife
Burial customs of Cro-Magnon Ornaments such as shell bracelets and hair circlets, stone tools, weapons, and food. Deceased were painted with red ochre
Bear cult of Neaderthal Setting apart the skull for possible reverence
Muhammad
Founder of islam, angel Gabriel, the last prophet
Qur'an
reciting, only be read in Arabic, holy scripture
Ka'ba
Was built by Abraham, was a big black metor and landed in mecca
Meaning of the term "Islam" Submission and peace
Meaning of the term "al-Qaeda" base
Al-Ghazzali
Synthesized sunni teachings with sufi mysticism
Sufism
Mysticism, wool clad
Sunnis and Shi'ite and their origins Death of ali caused the split between the sunni and shi’ites
Tanak
Jewish scripture
Torah
First five books in Tanak
Moses
Received an oral covenant
Abraham
Received a written covenant
Effects of Zoroastrianism on Judaism Inspired influx of jews worry arab settlers
Mishna
“repetition”, thousands of legal instructions
Holocaust
Anti Semitism(henry ford), hitler, forced intp ghettos, extermination camps, caused jews to do

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