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Rujia
The indigenous name for Confucianism
TERM 2
Ru
DEFINITION 2
the intellectual elite, scholar-officials
TERM 3
Master Kongzi
DEFINITION 3
Confucius
TERM 4
the Three Teachings
DEFINITION 4
Confucianism, Daoism, Sinified Buddhism
TERM 5
The 5 Virtues
DEFINITION 5
humaneness, ritual propriety, righteousness, honesty,
wisdom
ritual propriety
tiquette in proper social context
TERM 7
Tian
DEFINITION 7
cosmos, impersonal moral universe
TERM 8
shengren
DEFINITION 8
Sage, role model
TERM 9
junzi
DEFINITION 9
"superior person", role model
TERM 10
Lunyu
DEFINITION 10
the Analects, collection of sayings / dialogue attributed to
Kongzi and his disciples
Tillich
looked at the "ultimate concern"there is something real out
there that people can interact with
TERM 17
Geertz
DEFINITION 17
anthropologist, religion is a symbol system, worldview
TERM 18
Smart
DEFINITION 18
7 Dimensions of Religion:ritual/practical,
doctrinal/philosophical, mythical/narrative,
emotional/experiential, ethical/legal, organizational/social,
artistic/material
TERM 19
Lincoln
DEFINITION 19
religion's definition is flexible and covers 4 domains
TERM 20
hierophany
DEFINITION 20
acts of manifestation of sacred realities
cosmogony
discourse on the origin of the universe
TERM 22
cosmology
DEFINITION 22
the study of the underlying principles and patterns that
govern the universe
TERM 23
theology
DEFINITION 23
the sacred, what is ultimately real
TERM 24
descriptive discourse
DEFINITION 24
simple pure description
TERM 25
historical discourse
DEFINITION 25
context in history
animism
belief in gods or spirits in nature
TERM 32
monism
DEFINITION 32
belief in one impersonal reality
TERM 33
panenhenism
DEFINITION 33
belief in Nature as the sacred
TERM 34
pantheism
DEFINITION 34
belief in sacred in the world
TERM 35
panentheistic
DEFINITION 35
belief in the sacred in and beyond the world
religious studies
academic study of religion, comparative, objective,
interdisciplinary, non-normative
TERM 37
Theology
DEFINITION 37
study of religion in a normative matter, study from within the
religion, assuming the material is true
TERM 38
myth
DEFINITION 38
sacred story, designed to understand reality
TERM 39
Exclusivism
DEFINITION 39
normative approach that there is only one truth, and all other
truths are false
TERM 40
Inclusivism
DEFINITION 40
normative approach that there is only one truth, but others
contribute, acknowledge that other religions are trying to get
at the truth
material culture
the objects / materials of religion - engage all 5 senses
TERM 47
ethics
DEFINITION 47
reflection on moral experience
TERM 48
morality
DEFINITION 48
feelings of obligation to be or do something
TERM 49
religious ethics
DEFINITION 49
the tradition-specific ethical values
TERM 50
5 Buddhist
Precepts
DEFINITION 50
no killing, no lying, no stealing, no intoxicants, no sexual
misconduct
engagement
subjective, personal level
TERM 52
activism
DEFINITION 52
actual organized socio-political activity
TERM 53
environmentalism
DEFINITION 53
modern movement concerned with ecological problems
TERM 54
ecology
DEFINITION 54
study of biological organisms and ecosystems
TERM 55
asceticism
DEFINITION 55
voluntary, sustained, and at least partially systematic system
of self-discipline and self-denial
ritual studies
discipline that studies ritualsymbolic and practical meanings
TERM 62
The Encyclopedia of Religion
DEFINITION 62
published in 1987, edited by Eliadeagain in 2005
TERM 63
apparent invariance of
tradition
DEFINITION 63
we are conditioned to believe that tradition has been that
way forever, but it hasn't
TERM 64
invented tradition
DEFINITION 64
tradition that arises over time
TERM 65
3 considerations when it comes to tradition
DEFINITION 65
establishment, maintenance,
transformationauthorityinnovation
Hobsbawm
invented traditions, traditionalization: making something
traditional, keep in mind hidden motivation
TERM 67
Michael Foucault
DEFINITION 67
wrote the Archaeology of KnowledgeFrench philosopheralso
wrote the Birth of the Clinic, and sexuality and prison and
stuffinfluenced by Nietzscheinvestigated social convention
and received viewpoints
TERM 68
archaeology of knowledge
DEFINITION 68
study of the past of knowledge, investigating the historical
layers of knowledge, using the mind as an archaeological site
TERM 69
intellectual genealogy
DEFINITION 69
line of descent of knowledge
TERM 70
interpretive legacies
DEFINITION 70
the way we are conditioned to perceive things based on our
upbringing, preconceived notions, etc...
Orientalism
discourse on the Orient, a Western construct to describe the
Eastern culture (mostly Asian)it is an ethnocentric viewpoint
of the East by the West, meant to describe the "Other" and
emphasize the power of the Westmostly about Western
power and influencerooted in colonialism and missionization
TERM 77
post-colonialism
DEFINITION 77
letting members of a group have a say
TERM 78
The Oriental Monk
DEFINITION 78
modern construct of Asians as storehouses of wisdom,
salvific figures that will save the West from the corrupt
Western culture and materialism
TERM 79
Iwamura
DEFINITION 79
wrote "The Oriental Monk"only issue is, she plays Asians as
the victim, when some actually use this to their advantage
