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Vocab:world religion
Rev. Fuller, Australia, Aborigines
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| transcendence | going above and beyond the human condition |
| cosmology | understanding of the nature of the universe |
| monotheism | belief in one god |
| polytheism | belief in many gods |
| pantheism | belief that the divine reality exists in everything |
| revelation | when the ultimate reality is revealed to humans through stories, myths |
| faith | experience of the divine, sometimes involving intellectual belief and sometimes emphasizing personal trust |
| mysticism | category of religious experiences by uniting with the divine through inward contemplation |
| myth | story (scripture, Bible) that answers questions of origins and is true |
| ethics | religion that says how we are to act while on Earth (10 commandments) |
| ritual | formal worship practice |
| empathy | capacity for seeing things in a different perspective |
| ancestors | supernatural beings |
| the Dreaming | when ancestors where on the Earth |
| totem | natural form in which the ancestor appeared in the Dreaming |
| taboo | indicates that certain objects and activities are set aside for specific groups and no other group can use them |