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Re-enacts a myth

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ritual

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Brings about the symbolic death of childhood and redefines one’s identity within the tribe as an adult

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Initiation

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Name for the supreme reality, the great spirit means “most sacred”

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Walkman Tanka

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Live in eastern Montana, Wyoming, and the western regions of the Dakota’s and parts of Nebraska

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Lakota

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the axis mundi in the sun dance

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the cottonwood tree

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The elder who presides over the sun dance

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A medicine man

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Seeking spiritual power through an encounter with a guardian spirit usually in the form of an animal or other natural entity following a period of self-denial. Includes purification in the sweat lodge

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Vision quest

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The ritual of the Lakota that celebrates the new year and prepares the tribe for the annual bison hunt

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Sun dance

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A ritual offering one’s body through bodily mutilations as the only suitable sacrifice to offer the supreme being

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Sun dance

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Means the center of the universe and is considered the link between the earth and the heavens, can also represent the supreme being

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Axis mundi

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People who can access the spirit world, either good or evil, often through a trench at a ceremony or ritual. They often practice divinations and healing

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shaman

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What Jews call that which Christians call the Old Testament

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Tanakh

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Two of its three sections are Nevi’im (Prophets) and Ketuvim (Writings)

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Tanakh

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The oral Torah written down in 200 CE by Judah the Prince

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Mishnah

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Commentary on the Mishnah and the basis for Judaism even to today

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Talmud

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That which Christians call the Pentateuch. It also tells the story of Moses

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Torah

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A little container with the Shema in it attached to the doorpost of one’s home

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Mezuzah

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Day of Atonement for one’s sins from the previous year

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Yom Kippur

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Celebrates the successful Jewish Maccabee revolt against Greece

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Hanukkah

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Weekly holy day of no work Friday night at sundown to Saturday night at sundown

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Sabbath/Shabbat

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Celebrates liberation from slavery in Egypt

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Passover or Pesach

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Jewish New Year

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Ross Hashannah

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Islamic statement of faith “There is no God but Allah and Muhammad is the messenger of God”

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Shahada

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Pilgrimage to Mecca

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Hajj

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Prayer five times a day
Salat
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Month of Fasting
Ramadan
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Sharing Wealth with the poor
Zakat
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Muhammad’s birth
570
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“Night of Power and Excellence,” the beginning of the recitations
610
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Flight to Yathrib/Medina, aka the Hijra
622
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Return of Mohammads troops to Mecca
630
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Muhammad's death
632
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Means submission to the will god
Islam
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Means one who submits to the will of God
Muslim
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According to our textbook and the presenter at the mosque
Muhammad is the restorer of Islam
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Jesus and Mary were
Muslims
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the Qur’an is described as
The very worlds of God transmitted through the angel Gabriel to Muhammad (Night of Power and Excellence)
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The oldest son of Abraham and Hagar through whom Islam traces its ancestry back to Abraham
Ishmael
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The mountain on which Muhammad prayed and from where the Angel Gabriel appeared to him
Hira
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It means recitation
Qur’an
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The customs of the prophet Muhammad
Sunna
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The book in which the customs of the Prophet are written
Hadith
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The worldwide community of Muslims that transcends race, ethnicity, and gender
Umma (ummmm ah ummmm idk)
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Islamic law and rules governing every aspect of Muslim life including political
Shari’a -share your beliefs
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One’s struggle for the faith, commonly understood as the holy war
Jihad
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The physical center of Islam around which Muslims pilgrims circle seven times during the Hajj
Ka’ba
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The 114 separate chapters of the Qu’ran
Sura (are you Sura there’s that many?)
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The niche in a mosque that one faces to know the direction toward Mecca for prayer
Mihrab
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The tower attached to a mosque that a person ascends to announce time for prayer. The equivalent on a Catholic Church is the steeple with bells, originally rung to tell people time for prayer
Minaret
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The person who climbs up the tower to announce times for prayer
Muzzein
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The Arabic word for mosque
Masjid
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87% of Muslims, follows the customs of the Prophet Muhammad and believes the successor to Muhammad should be elected
Suní-largest the Sun is huge
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A mystical movement within Islam that emphasized extraordinary closeness to Allah. Some members experiences closeness to Allah by spinning. (Whirling dervishes)
Sufism
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Believes the successor to Muhammad must be a blood relative and is the more politically volitive of the two main branches
Shia
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Endless cycle of reincarnations
Samsara
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Ethical duties based on caste, gender, and stage of life
dharma (dharma is what you DO)
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Acts of devotion to a particular god or goddess
Puja
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The goal in Hinduism, that is, release from the cycle of reincarnations
Moksha milkshake
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Moral law of cause and effect, determines level of reincarnation, explains source of evil
Karma
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The ultimate unknowable impersonal only being, the essence of everything and in fact is everything
Brahman
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The highest caste in the caste system
Brahmin (he is IN)
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The cosmology of Hinduism that there is only one reality
Maya
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Cosmic Illusion, does not exist, includes you and me as well as the physical universe
Monism (one)
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The part that got separated from the “one and only” like a drop of water that gets separated from the ocean, developers an ego and believes it exists as a separate being, thus preventing Moksha
Atman
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The goal of pleasure within the bounds of ethical duties and Karma
Kama
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The goal of material success within the bounds of ethical duties and karma
Artha (buy art)
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A wandering ascetic after one has passed the other stages of life
Sannyasin
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The highest level of the path of knowledge in which one becomes that which is known, the experience of the realization that the soul is Brahman, that Atman is Brahman, that Brahman is Atman, practicing yoga helps achieve this
Samadhi
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This would most likely result in moksha
Samadhi
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Priests
Brahmin
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Warriors, princes, rulers
Kshatriya
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No caste, outcaste, untouchables, comparable to dogs, also called Harijans, “Gods people” by the Mahatma Ghandi
Dalit (Dalit dogs)
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Merchants, businessmen, artisans, farmers, skilled laborers
Vaishya
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Servants, unskilled laborers
Shudra
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They collect dead animals, garbage, clean latrines, cremate the dead
Dalit
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They most likely will experience Moksha when they die
Brahmin
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What dies in Hinduism
ego and body
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What is reincarnated in Hinduism
Soul
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What determines the level of reincarnation
Karmic record
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Hinduism belief on the soul
I am a caretaker of my soul, which is not really me, but Brahman
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A person would be born in a certain caste because
The karmic record of a previous person which is attached to the reincarnated soul
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The goal in Hinduism is to
get rid self of ego, which is in fact maya, does not exist and stands in the way of moksha
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What is the ultimate goal in Buddhism
To reach nirvana
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Boddhisattva means
a Buddhist who qualifies for Nirvana but willingly reincarnates out of compassion to help others
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The impermanence of life
anicca
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No soul
antta
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Suffering
dukkha
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A river demonstrates this
anicca
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a sand mandala demonstrates this
anatta
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Means “Larger raft” and is the largest branch of Buddhism with 80% of other Buddhists
Mahayana
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Boddhisttva is the holy one, willing reincarnates to help others. The Buddha is also seen as a god. There are two ways to nirvana. Anyone can become a Buddha
Vajrayana
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Arhat is holy one, Nirvana achieved when criteria is met. The Buddha is a human only and points the way to Nirvana. Anyone can become a Buddha.
Theravada
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Otherwise known as Tibetan Buddhism, the Dalai Lama comes from this one. Mantra, Mudra, and Mandala are main expressions of this one
Vajrayana
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Ritualized hand movements
Mudra
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Repeated sounds, chanting
Mantra
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First noble truth
Life is dukkha
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Second noble truth
cause of dukkha is Tanha
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Third noble truth
To get rid of dukkha, get rid of tanha
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Fourth noble truth
To do this follow eight fold path

Theology World Religions Final (2 decks)

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