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1
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Deviation

A

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

2
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Totem

A

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

3
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Monism

A

All reality is one unified a divine reality

4
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Shamans

A

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

5
Q

Native American land of dead

A

Spirit world
Souls
living through dreams

6
Q

Upanishads

A

Collection of Hindu teaching about self and reality

7
Q

Samsara

A

Rebirth cycle

8
Q

Moksha

A

Liberation from bondage of karma

9
Q

Laws of manu

A

Most authoritative of books

Dharma

10
Q

Brahman

A

Ultimate reality in divine source and essence of universe

11
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Tirahantaras

A

Ford builder

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

12
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Asceticism

A

Self discipline

13
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Sanctity of life

A

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

14
Q

Mohagana

A

Great vehicle

15
Q

Badhisattua

A

One becoming Buddha

16
Q

Theravada

A

Teaching of the elders

17
Q

Tanha

A

Thirst

Desire

18
Q

Arhat

A

Perfect being

Nirvana

19
Q

Anatman

A

No self

20
Q

Animism

A

Believe in spirits

21
Q

Taboo

A

Full of secret power

22
Q

Myth

A

Stories about sacred beings

23
Q

Ancestor veneration

A

Practice based on belief that family has a continued existence

24
Q

African religion God

A

Olomum

Sky god

25
Q

African illness

A

Good health equals relationship with ancestors

Bad health = karma

26
Q

Terra mater

A

Mother nature

27
Q

Vedas

A

Hindu text

28
Q

African dead

A

Continues in the other realms

29
Q

Hinduism

A

Indian
third largest
way of life

30
Q

Wakan tanka

A

Native American supreme being and creator

31
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Manu

A

Man

32
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Rig Veda

A

Main Hindu text

33
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Ahimsa

A

Nonviolence

34
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Nirvana

A

Complete freedom from noble eightfold path

35
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Dalai Lama

A

Heard of Buddhist to school

Tenzin

36
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Right of passage

A

Rituals connected with change and passage in persons life

Birth puberty marriage death

37
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Ritual

A

Activity of any kind that connects people to sacred realities

38
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Negative VisionQuest

A

Purification fasting and praying in the secret place to attain spiritual powers and direction

39
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Native sickness

A

Breakdown of relationship with other being

40
Q

Native medicine healer

A

Sharman
confess or telling
making amends

41
Q

Bhagauad Gita

A

Song of God

42
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Mother and spirit dualism of Jainism

A

Souls and mother or two difference substances

reincarnation through Karma

43
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Eight fold path

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Understanding 
intention 
speech 
action 
livelihood 
effort 
mindfulness 
concentration
44
Q

Four Noble truth

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Birth is sorrow
arising of sorrow
stopping of sorrow
the way which leads to something so

45
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Challenges for studying religion

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Personal beliefs 
divisions in defining religion
 difficulty interpreting text 
limited access 
divisions within religion