Use LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys to navigate between flashcards;
Use UP and DOWN arrow keys to flip the card;
H to show hint;
A reads text to speech;
25 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
|
monotheism |
belief in one god |
|
|
henotheism |
one god in charge of other minor gods |
|
|
pantheism |
the universe is the divine, the divine is immanent in all natural processes |
|
|
polytheism |
belief in many gods |
|
|
monism |
belief that there is only one reality, principle, or being underlying diversity of all existing things |
|
|
animism |
belief that animals, plants, and inanimate objects have souls or spirits |
|
|
Paganism |
indigenous to Western Europe before rise of Christianity, often with animistic or polytheistic practices |
|
|
deism |
god creates world and then lets it be |
|
|
agnosticism |
do not acknowledge that there is or is not a god, often feel they don't have enough evidence |
|
|
atheism |
no belief in god |
|
|
transcendence |
reality separate from the mundane; Abrahamic monotheism portrays god this way |
|
|
immanence |
divine encompasses and is manifested in the mundane world |
|
|
omniscience |
all-knowing |
|
|
monasticism |
dedicating life to religion; renounce commitment to family, career, society |
|
|
mysticism |
belief in the possibility of a union with the divine |
|
|
ascetism |
method of spiritual cultivation involving denial of bodily needs |
|
|
soteriology |
religious theories concerning salvation |
|
|
cosmology/metaphysics |
theories concerning ultimate nature of the world we live in |
|
|
cosmogony |
theories of ultimate origin of the cosmos ex: origin story in Genesis 1 |
|
|
canon |
tradition defining collection of sacred books |
|
|
theogony |
theories about origins of gods |
|
|
liturgy |
regular pattern of religious worship, often based on annual calendar |
|
|
theology |
study of God |
|
|
anthropomorphism |
giving human characteristics to gods |
|
|
anthropopathism |
giving human emotions to the divine |
