Vocabulary Week 1 Hum/130

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Appendix C

HUM 130 Week 1 Vocabulary Quiz

| |Define these terms in your own words. |
|1. Immanent |Being a part of something at that moment |
|2. Religion |To have a belief in God in your own way; to worship |
|3. Theistic |The belief in that there is a God |
|4. Monotheistic |To believe in only one God |
|5. Profane |The belief of not believing |
|6. Polytheistic |To believe in more than one God |
|7. Monistic |One that believes that all that is alive was created by one person or thing |
|8. Dogma |To be a part of a group that believes, and has strong faith |
|9. Nontheistic |To believe or not it is the right to think there is a personal God or Gods |
|10. Transcendent |The belief that there is life outside of this world |
|11. Incarnations |To believe that there is a person on earth that is Jesus walking around within us all |
|12. Kensho |To believe in Buddhism |
|13. Atheism |The non-belief of God or Gods |
|14. Agnosticism |Doubtful or unsure that a God exists |
|15. Rituals |Ceremony in which all believe in the same religion |
|16. Symbols |A picture, word or printed sign that resembles something that has an important value to it |
|17. Myths |A belief in any story, person or thing |
|18. Orthodox |A specific belief in Orthodox Judaism |
|19. Routinization of charisma |The loss of a leader |
|20. Absolutists |Those that believe that there is only one person in charge of all things and decisions |
|21. Charisma |A power that no other person should have other than God |
|22. Fundamentalism |The belief of what is in the Bible is true and none of it is made up |
|23. Phenomenology |The same as being |
|24. Liberal |Traditional views from Orthodox and dogmas |
|25. Mysticism |The ultimate belief in God |
|26. Heretic |The belief of a personal opinion opposed to the teachings of a church they attend |
|27. Sacred |To be faithful to your religion |
|28. Soul |A person that is spiritually a part of their religion and believes it to the fullest extent |