First Test Flashcards

(45 cards)

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Deviation

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Practice of determining hidden significance or cause of event
future telling or supernatural

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Totem

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System of believes in humans are said to have kinship with spiritual beings

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3
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Monism

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All reality is one unified a divine reality

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4
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Shamans

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People who can transcend human limitations and communicate with varieties of spiritual beings

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5
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Native American land of dead

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Spirit world
Souls
living through dreams

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6
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Upanishads

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Collection of Hindu teaching about self and reality

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7
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Samsara

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Rebirth cycle

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8
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Moksha

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Liberation from bondage of karma

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9
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Laws of manu

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Most authoritative of books

Dharma

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10
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Brahman

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Ultimate reality in divine source and essence of universe

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Tirahantaras

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Ford builder

One who has total liberation and shows way across the ocean of suffering

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Asceticism

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Self discipline

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Sanctity of life

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The doctrine of life
2 traditions
eastern and western
all life is sacred with no distinction

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14
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Mohagana

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Great vehicle

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15
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Badhisattua

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One becoming Buddha

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16
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Theravada

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Teaching of the elders

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17
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Tanha

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Thirst

Desire

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18
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Arhat

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Perfect being

Nirvana

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Anatman

20
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Animism

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Believe in spirits

21
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Taboo

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Full of secret power

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Myth

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Stories about sacred beings

23
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Ancestor veneration

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Practice based on belief that family has a continued existence

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African religion God

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Olomum

Sky god

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African illness
Good health equals relationship with ancestors Bad health = karma
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Terra mater
Mother nature
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Vedas
Hindu text
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African dead
Continues in the other realms
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Hinduism
Indian third largest way of life
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Wakan tanka
Native American supreme being and creator
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Manu
Man
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Rig Veda
Main Hindu text
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Ahimsa
Nonviolence
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Nirvana
Complete freedom from noble eightfold path
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Dalai Lama
Heard of Buddhist to school Tenzin
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Right of passage
Rituals connected with change and passage in persons life | Birth puberty marriage death
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Ritual
Activity of any kind that connects people to sacred realities
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Negative VisionQuest
Purification fasting and praying in the secret place to attain spiritual powers and direction
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Native sickness
Breakdown of relationship with other being
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Native medicine healer
Sharman confess or telling making amends
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Bhagauad Gita
Song of God
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Mother and spirit dualism of Jainism
Souls and mother or two difference substances | reincarnation through Karma
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Eight fold path
``` Understanding intention speech action livelihood effort mindfulness concentration ```
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Four Noble truth
Birth is sorrow arising of sorrow stopping of sorrow the way which leads to something so
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Challenges for studying religion
``` Personal beliefs divisions in defining religion difficulty interpreting text limited access divisions within religion ```