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deven_nicole on October 19, 2012
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 origin stories | tales that a group of people tell about where they came from and how the earth came to be |
| fundamentalism | the interpretation of every word in the sacred texts as literal truth |
| secularism | a doctrine that rejects religion and religious considerations |
| monotheism | belief in a single God |
| polytheism | belief in multiple Gods |
| deity | any supernatural being worshipped as controlling some part of the world or some aspect of life or who is the personification of a force |
| shamanism | any animistic religion similar to Asian shamanism (especially as practiced by certain Native American tribes) |
| israel | Jewish republic in southwestern Asia at eastern end of Mediterranean |
| covenant | (Bible) an agreement between God and his people in which God makes certain promises and requires certain behavior from them in return |
| zionism | a policy for establishing and developing a national homeland for Jews in Palestine |
| abrahamic faiths | the faiths whose origins can be traced back to Abraham and Sarah, the faiths of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam |
| judaism | Jews collectively who practice a religion based on the Torah and the Talmud |
| ishmael and isaac | 2 sons of Abraham |
| exodus | a journey by a large group to escape from a hostile environment |
| sabbath/shabbat | the day from sunset on Friday until sunset on Saturday that is set aside for rest and religious celebration, as decreed by one of the Ten Commandments |
| kosher | food that fulfills the requirements of Jewish dietary law |
| torah | the whole body of the Jewish sacred writings and tradition including the oral tradition |
| rabbi | spiritual leader of a Jewish congregation |
| semite/antisemite | ... |
| diaspora | the body of Jews (or Jewish communities) outside Palestine or modern Israel |
| reform | self-improvement in behavior or morals by abandoning some vice |
| conservative | a person who believes government power, particularly in the economy, should be limited in order to maximize individual freedom |
| orthodox | adhering to what is commonly accepted |
| martyr | one who voluntarily suffers death as the penalty for refusing to renounce their religion |
| messiah | the awaited king of the Jews |
| abraham | the first of the Old Testament patriarchs and the father of Isaac |
| jesus of nazareth | a teacher and prophet born in Bethlehem and active in Nazareth |
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