Hum/130 Apendix c

Hum/130 Apendix c

Associate Level Material
Appendix C

HUM 130 Week 1 Vocabulary Quiz

| Define these terms in your own words. |
1. Immanent | Mentally feeling the greatness of something and having no effect outside of it. |
2. Religion | A personal feeling of commitment and belief in something greater |
3. Theistic | Believing in one god or gods as the creative source of human race and the world |
4. Monotheistic | The belief in one god |
5. Profane | Doing something wrong or vulgar |
6. Polytheistic | Beleiving in more than one god |
7. Monistic | Believing in only one viewpoint or theory |
8. Dogma | An opinion of faith or morals that a church uses |
9. Nontheistic | Not believing in one god or consequences |
10. Transcendent | Goes beyond the expected limits |
11. Incarnations | A spirit or deity in an earthly form |
12. Kensho | Seeing into ones own nature |
13. Atheism | The disbelief of the existence of a god(s) or deity |
14. Agnosticism | A person who holds the view that any ultimate reality is unknown and probably unknowable. |
15. Rituals | An established ceremony or act |
16. Symbols | Something that stands for or suggests something else |
17. Myths | A traditional belief that has grown up around something or someone |
18. Orthodox | Another way of saying conventional |
19. Routinization of charisma | When in the development of a religion after the founding prophet or visionary dies, a priesthood is established. |
20. Absolutists | A theory that there should be absolute standards and principles by one or more rulers |
21. Charisma | A special magnetic charm or appeal |
22. Fundamentalism | A movement or attitude that stresses strict and literal adherence to a set of basic principles |
23. Phenomenology | The study of the development of human consciousness and self awareness as a preface to or a part of philosophy |
24. Liberal | Generous and openhanded, not literal |
25. Mysticism | A vague speculation or a...