Prepare for your exams
Get points
Guidelines and tips

Prepare for your exams

Study with the several resources on Docsity

Earn points to download

Earn points by helping other students or get them with a premium plan

Guidelines and tips

Sell on Docsity

Prepare for your exams

Study with the several resources on Docsity

Find documents

Prepare for your exams with the study notes shared by other students like you on Docsity

Search Store documents

The best documents sold by students who completed their studies

Search through all study resources

Docsity AINEW

Summarize your documents, ask them questions, convert them into quizzes and concept maps

Explore questions

Clear up your doubts by reading the answers to questions asked by your fellow students

Earn points to download

Earn points by helping other students or get them with a premium plan

Share documents

20 Points

For each uploaded document

Answer questions

5 Points

For each given answer (max 1 per day)

All the ways to get free points

Get points immediately

Choose a premium plan with all the points you need

Study Opportunities

Choose your next study program

Get in touch with the best universities in the world. Search through thousands of universities and official partners

Community

Ask the community

Ask the community for help and clear up your study doubts

University Rankings

Discover the best universities in your country according to Docsity users

Free resources

Our save-the-student-ebooks!

Download our free guides on studying techniques, anxiety management strategies, and thesis advice from Docsity tutors

From our blog

Exams and Study

Go to the blog

Glossary of Religious Terms and Concepts, Quizzes of Religious Studies

University of Central Missouri (UCM)Religious Studies

Definitions for various terms and concepts related to different religious traditions, including absolutism, agnosticism, allegory, atheism, awakening, charisma, comparative religion, creationism, dogma, enlightenment, exclusivism, fundamentalism, gnosis, immanent, incarnation, intelligent design, liberal, metaphysics, monotheism, mysticism, myth, orthodox, phenomenology, polytheism, profane, realization, redaction, religion, ritual, sacred, scientific materialism, secularism, spirituality, symbol, theism, transcendent, universalism, and three additional religions.

Typology: Quizzes

2013/2014

Uploaded on 08/31/2014

kleestephen 🇺🇸

2 documents

1 / 8

This page cannot be seen from the preview

Don't miss anything!

TERM 1

Absolutist

DEFINITION 1

Believing in One's Received traditions as completely

and exclusively true

TERM 2

Agnosticism

DEFINITION 2

Belief that if there is anything beyond this life it is impossible

for humans to know it

TERM 3

Allegory

DEFINITION 3

Narrative using symbols to convey abstract ideas

TERM 4

Atheism

DEFINITION 4

Belief there is no Deity

TERM 5

Awakening

DEFINITION 5

Full Awareness of invisible Reality

Partial preview of the text

Download Glossary of Religious Terms and Concepts and more Quizzes Religious Studies in PDF only on Docsity!

Absolutist

Believing in One's Received traditions as completely

and exclusively true

TERM 2

Agnosticism

DEFINITION 2

Belief that if there is anything beyond this life it is impossible

for humans to know it

TERM 3

Allegory

DEFINITION 3

Narrative using symbols to convey abstract ideas

TERM 4

Atheism

DEFINITION 4

Belief there is no Deity

TERM 5

Awakening

DEFINITION 5

Full Awareness of invisible Reality

Charisma

Magnetic attraction, a Quality often ascribed to Religious

Leader

TERM 7

Glossary of Religious Terms and Concepts, Quizzes of Religious Studies

Related documents

Partial preview of the text

Download Glossary of Religious Terms and Concepts and more Quizzes Religious Studies in PDF only on Docsity!

Absolutist

Believing in One's Received traditions as completely

and exclusively true

TERM 2

Agnosticism

DEFINITION 2

Belief that if there is anything beyond this life it is impossible

for humans to know it

TERM 3

Allegory

DEFINITION 3

Narrative using symbols to convey abstract ideas

TERM 4

Atheism

DEFINITION 4

Belief there is no Deity

TERM 5

Awakening

DEFINITION 5

Full Awareness of invisible Reality

Charisma

Magnetic attraction, a Quality often ascribed to Religious

Leader

TERM 7

Comparative Religion

DEFINITION 7

A discipline that attempts to compare and understand

patterns found in different religious traditions

TERM 8

Creationism

DEFINITION 8

Belief that all life was created by God

TERM 9

Dogma

DEFINITION 9

Doctrines proclaimed as absolutely true by religious

institutions

TERM 10

Enlightenment

DEFINITION 10

Wisdom that is thought to come from direct exposure of

Ultimate Reality

Intelligent Design

Intelligent design is the pseudoscientific view that "certain

features of the universe and of living things are best explained by

an intelligent cause, not an undirected process such as natural

selection." Educators, philosophers, and the scientific community

have demonstrated that ID is a religious argument, a form of

creationism which lacks empirical support and offers no tenable

hypotheses.

TERM 17

Liberal

DEFINITION 17

taking a Flexible non dogmatic approach

TERM 18

Metaphysics

DEFINITION 18

Philosophy based on theories of subtle realities that

transcend the physical world

TERM 19

Monotheism

DEFINITION 19

Belief there is only one deity

TERM 20

Mysticism

DEFINITION 20

The Intuitive perception of spiritual truths beyond the limits

of reason

Myth

A Symbolic story expressing ideas about reality or spiritual

history

TERM 22

Orthodox

DEFINITION 22

Strictly standing by received traditions

TERM 23