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Glossary of Religious Terms and Concepts, Quizzes of 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.

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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
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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

Phenomenology

DEFINITION 23

study of religious practices tot comprehend their meaning for

their practitioners

TERM 24

polytheism

DEFINITION 24

Belief that there are many deities

TERM 25

Profane

DEFINITION 25

Worldy, Secular, as opposed to sacred

Scientific Materialism

a worldview which holds that there is nothing but natural

elements, principles, and relations of the kind studied by the

natural sciences, i.e., those required to understand our

physical environment by mathematical modeling. The

Supernatural is only imagined by humans

TERM 32

Secularism

DEFINITION 32

the separation of government institutions and persons

mandated to represent the state from religious institutions

and religious dignitaries.

TERM 33

Spirituality

DEFINITION 33

Any Personal Response to dimensions of of life that are

considered sacred

TERM 34

Symbol

DEFINITION 34

Visible representation of an invisible reality or concept

TERM 35

theism

DEFINITION 35

belief in a Deity or Deities

Transcendent

Spiritual reality that exists apart from the material universe

TERM 37

Universalism

DEFINITION 37

acceptance that truth may be found in all religions

TERM 38

Religion 2

DEFINITION 38

From the Greek word for to tie back

TERM 39

Religion 3

DEFINITION 39

An understanding of the universe, together with an

appropriate way of living within it, which involves reference

beyond the natural world to God or gods or to the Absolute

or to a transcendent order or process