midterm

Question 1

osiris

Answer 1

god of underworld

Question 2

isis

Answer 2

wife of osiris

Question 3

horus

Answer 3

son of osiris, sun god

Question 4

anubis

Answer 4

guide of the dead

Question 5

maat

Answer 5

personification of nature and human law

Question 6

mummification

Answer 6

all organs except for heart are removed and put in jars

Question 7

zoroaster

Answer 7

founding prophet

Question 8

ahura mazda

Answer 8

the wise lord (zoroastrian)

Question 9

dakhma

Answer 9

building where bodies are brought and eaten by birds

Question 10

fravashi

Answer 10

spiritual double (conscience)

Question 11

egyptian view of soul

Answer 11

living body, corpse, mummified body

ka (life force), ba (spirit that leaves at death)

Question 12

the egyptian texts

Answer 12

• pyramid texts: location rulers could go to in the afterlife
• coffin texts
• book of the dead: judgement and kingdom of osiris

Question 13

death in epic of gilgamesh

Answer 13

dark view of the afterlife

Question 14

babylonian funeral practice, zoroastrian funeral

Answer 14

preparation for death, recital of prayer

Question 15

divisions of underworld greek

Answer 15

elysium (for those who have lived a good life)
tartarus (for those who have lived a wicked life)
hades (for those not remembered by the living)

Question 16

what constitutes a burial

Answer 16

• pit with body
• something out of the ordinary
• all parts of skeleton in proper place

Question 17

i shall sail rightly in my bark

Answer 17

egyptian text

Question 18

far strider who came from heliopolis

Answer 18

egyptian text

Question 19

on the road where traveling is one way

Answer 19

mesopotamian text

Question 20

holiness is the best of all good

Answer 20

zoroastrian text

Question 21

psychic unity

Answer 21

all human beings have the same cognitive equipment that is affected by culture

Question 22

numinous

Answer 22

out of the ordinary

Question 23

tupilak

Answer 23

monster fabricated by practitioners of witchcraft or shamanism

Question 24

common characteristics among indigenous religions

Answer 24

• spiritualization of the world
• all embracing connection sin nature
• humans are part of and dependant on the natural world
• spirit realms are accessible
• religion reinforces social bond

Question 25

wari funeral practice

Answer 25

- ancestral realm under water - ancestors allow themselves to be hunted as peccaries - mortuary cannabilism - destroy all evidence of the deceased existence

Question 26

animism

Answer 26

some items inthe world are inhabited by spirits if an important event is tied to it

Question 27

melpa understanding of souls

Answer 27

dead have some control over the living - dead depend on living for sacrifices - living can physically interact with dead - dead can see and hear everything

Question 28

if the wicked spirit dips the soul

Answer 28

indigenous text

Question 29

an eldest brother refused to allocate a large pig

Answer 29

indigenous text

Question 30

memento mori

Answer 30

remember death

Question 31

thanatology

Answer 31

scientific study of death

Question 32

taphophobia

Answer 32

fear of being buried alive

Question 33

epoche

Answer 33

suspension of judgement

Question 34

soteriology

Answer 34

study of religious doctrine of salvation

Question 35

characteristics of religious ritual

Answer 35

- embedded in cultural system - perfored - formal and governed by rules - traditional

Question 36

van genneps rite of passage

Answer 36

separation, liminality, incorporation

Question 37

mustard seed

Answer 37

buddhist text

Question 38

mizvot

Answer 38

613 commandment in torah

Question 39

sheol

Answer 39

dark place of the dead

Question 40

dvekut

Answer 40

closeness to god

Question 41

tahara

Answer 41

washing and purifying of a dead body

Question 42

sitting shiva

Answer 42

week long mourning period

Question 43

now the lord said to abram go from your country

Answer 43

jewish text

Question 44

you shall love the lord your god

Answer 44

jewish text

Question 45

keep then this entire commandment that I am commading you today

Answer 45

Jewish text

Question 46

imitato christi

Answer 46

christian handbook for spiritual life

Question 47

purgatory

Answer 47

place of purification

Question 48

intercessory prayer

Answer 48

praying to a deity on behalf of others

Question 49

augustines compromise

Answer 49

spiritual and physical resurrection

Question 50

stages of resurrection

Answer 50

-final judgement

Question 51

key features of four theories of atonement

Answer 51

- christs death as ransom - christs death as satisfaction - christs death as moral example - theosis (atonmenet provided by entirety of christs life)

Question 52

shahada

Answer 52

muslim declaration of faith

Question 53

qibla

Answer 53

direction that should be faced when a muslim prays

Question 54

hadith

Answer 54

record of traditions or sayings of muhammad

Question 55

ruh and nafs

Answer 55

life breath and soul associated with rationality

Question 56

munkar and nakir

Answer 56

angels who test the faith of the dead

Question 57

barzakh

Answer 57

period between death and final judgement

Question 58

the traverse

Answer 58

bridge

Question 59

muslim funerary practice

Answer 59

shahada as last words shroud body and close eyes no expression of excessive grief

Question 60

when the sun is shrouded in darkness, when the stars are dimmed

Answer 60

islamic text

Question 61

on that day the mountains shall be shaken to dust

Answer 61

islamic text

Question 62

did i not bless you with youth?

Answer 62

islamic text

Question 63

when the scales are erected and actions are weighed

Answer 63

islamic text