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Tabitha_miller on October 19, 2012
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31 terms
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 | an animistic religion of northern Asia having the belief that the mediation between the visible and the spirit worlds is effected by shamans |
| israel | an ancient kingdom of the Hebrew tribes at the southeastern end of the Mediterranean Sea |
| conventant | agreement |
| zionism | a policy for establishing and developing a national homeland for Jews in Palestine |
| abrahamic faiths | Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. |
| judaism | the monotheistic religion of the Jews having its spiritual and ethical principles embodied chiefly in the Torah and in the Talmud |
| ishmael and isaac | 2 sons of Abraham |
| exodous | a mass departure |
| sabbath | a day of rest and worship: Sunday for most Christians |
| kosher | food that fulfills the requirements of Jewish dietary law |
| torah | (Judaism) the scroll of parchment on which the first five books of the Hebrew Scripture is written |
| rabbi | a Hebrew title of respect for a Jewish scholar or teacher |
| semite | a member of a group of Semitic-speaking peoples of the Middle East and northern Africa |
| diaspora | the dispersion of the Jews outside Israel |
| reform | a change for the better as a result of correcting abuses |
| conservative | a person who has conservative ideas or opinions |
| orthodox | adhering to what is commonly accepted |
| martyr | one who suffers for the sake of principle |
| 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 |
| reformation | a religious movement of the 16th century that began as an attempt to reform the Roman Catholic Church and resulted in the creation of Protestant churches |
| great schism | a period of division in the Roman Catholic Church, 1378-1417, over papal succession, during which there were two, or sometimes three, claimants to the papal office |
| proselytizing | trying to convert someone else to your religion |
| crucifixion | the infliction of extremely painful punishment or suffering |
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