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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 religion | is probably derived from the latin, meaning to tie back, to tie again |
| spirituality | personal, non-institutionalized patterns |
| 7 dimensions | ritual narrative and myth, experiential and emotional, social and institutional, ethical and legal, doctrinal and philosophical, and material |
| materialistic perspective | humans invented religion -scientific materialism: 19th and 20th centuries, "the materialistic point of view is that the supernatural is imagined by humans, only the material world exists" |
| freud | "a collective fantasy" a universal obsessional neurosis", "religious belief is an illusion springing from peoples infantile insecurity and neurotic guilt; as such it closely resembles mental illness |
| marx | socialist philosopher, author of The communist Manifesto, argued that a cultures religion as well as all other aspects of its social structure- springs from its economic framework |
| durkheim | proposed humans cannot live without organized social structures and that religions are a glue that holds a society together |
| dogma | systems of doctrines proclaimed as absolutely true and accepted as such |
| mysticism | to perceive truth directly beyond the senses beyond the limits of human reason beyond belief |
| Mircea eliade | theorist who used sacred and profane to understand and compare religious patterns |
| profane | the everyday world of seemingly random ordinary and unimportant occurrences |
| sacred | the realm of extraordinary apparently purposeful but generally imperceptible forces |
| monotheistic | being is thought to be singular |
| polytheistic | if many attributes and forms of the divine are emphasized |
| monistic religions | religions which hold that beneath the multiplicity of apparent forms there is one underlying substance |
| atheism | the belief that there is no deity |
| agnosticism | is not the denial of the divine but the feeling "i dont know whether exists or not or the belief that if it exists it is impossible for humans to know it" |
| ritual | a repeated patterned religious act |
| symbols | visible representation of an invisible reality or concept |
| myths | symbolic stories that communities use to explain the universe and their place within it |
| heretic | a member of an established religion whose views are unacceptable to the orthodoxy |
| redaction | editing and organizing of the scripture and the development of an authorized canon |
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