Quiz-1 Flashcards
(21 cards)
Animism
belief in an inner soul that gives life and identity to living things and emphasizes rituals in which humans interact with outer souls.
Gentile
refers to someone who is not Jewish.
Torah
Translates as reception, teaching, or laws and represents God’s revelation and commandments–can also refer to the first five books of the Hebrew Bible.
Tanakh
name for the Jewish canon or Hebrew Bible
Diaspora
the dispersion of a religious people outside their geographic homeland.
Talmud
compendum of laws and commentary making up the oral Torah.
Synagogue
community centered on prayer and the study of the Torah; the building in which the community meets for these activities.
Ashkenazi
Jews whose traditions originated in central and eastern Europe
Kabbalah
jewish mystical theory and practice.
Hasidism
defers from orthodox Judaism in it’s emphasis on emotional spiritual expression and pious devotion.
Holocaust
systematic murder of six million Jews by Nazi Germany and it’s collaborators.
Septuagint
Hebrew Bible translated in Greek and dissemiated throughout diaspora.
Yarmulke
head covering for Jewish men.
Zionism
nineteenth century Jewish secular political movement that promoted giving Jews their own national homeland.
Syncretism
combination of elements from different belief systems.
Spirit medium/shaman
person who communicates with deities and spirits through ritually induced trance.
Dreamtime
for Australian Aboriginess, the time when the world was created and which exists in another realm.
Totem
symbol taken from the natural world to represent the common origin and essence of a social group.
Circular time
awareness, especially in hunter-gatherer societies , life follows the same reoccurring cycle of time determined by the sun, moon, and the seasons.
Homo religious
term coined by Mircea Eliade that characterizes humans as inherently religious beings.
Cosmogony
mythological account of the world’s creation.
