RELS 200 Exam 4
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| Activist Atheist/Agnostic | people who have notably advocated for atheism, in words or actions, as an alternative to theist religion, or religious belief in general
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| Adura | prayer
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| Agbo | herbal medicine
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| Agnosticism | is the view or belief that the existence of God, of the divine or the supernatural is unknown or unknowable
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| Ajogun | the personification of malevolent forces as six hundred and one warriors that wage war against humanity
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| Anti-Theist | theory which refuses to ascribe to a god an attribute which is essential to a worthy conception of its character
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| Ashe | affirmation and hopeful wishes
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| Atheism | those theories which refuse to acknowledge that there is evidence even for the existence of a god
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| Atunwa | the possibility of reincarnation within the family
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| Ayanmo | man chooses his destiny
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| Aye | life or exist
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| Babalawo | client focused and based their healing powers on the Olodumare- the almighty God
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| Baron D’Holbach | Attacked Christianity on political, moral, and philosophical grounds and his thought influenced French Revolution (1723-1789)
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| Baruch Spinoza | Pantheism, No distinction between God and nature – Deus sive natura (“God or nature”) (1632-1704)
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| Bertrand Russell | Teapot Agnosticism (1872-1970)
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| Bondye | the ultimate source of power, deemed responsible for maintaining universal order
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| Candomble | the Afro-Brazilian religious cults of Bahia, with origins in Yoruban religious ritual and belief, created by African slaves and their descendants; the ceremonies honoring the Yoruban orixás; the temple or cult center where the ceremonies are held
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| Capoeira | a system of physical discipline and movement originating among Brazilian slaves, treated as a martial art and dance form.
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| Church of the Latter Day Dude | The idea is this: Life is short and complicated and nobody knows what to do about it. So don’t do anything about it. Just take it easy, man. (founder is Oliver Benjamin)
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| Church of the SubGenius | parody religion that satirizes better-known belief systems. It teaches a complex philosophy that focuses on J. R. "Bob" Dobbs, purportedly a salesman from the 1950s, who is revered as a prophet by the Church
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| Crypto-culture | concepts like wealth, entitlement, enrichment, and ego
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| Elegba | trickster god of the Yoruba people of Nigeria in West Africa
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| Emi | me
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| Hard/Strong Agnosticism | the firm belief that the existence of a Deity and the very nature of ultimate reality is logically and scientifically unprovable and therefore, unknowable by anyone.
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| Herbert of Cherbury | Father of Deism (1583-1648)
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| Ifa | the most venerable and venerated of these divination techniques or god of divination, fate, and wisdom
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| Ile-Ife | place of dispersion
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| Intellectual Atheist/Agnostic | people who are well-educated, interested in religion, informed about it, but not themselves believers
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| Isese | the wisdom passed down from our ancestors and spiritual progenitors
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| Iwa Pele | character, is centered on maturity, humility, honesty, sincerity and. patience (corrector right character)
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| Iyalawo | Mother of Mysteries or Mother of Wisdom
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| Karl Marx | Applied alienation to economics, Religion is opium of the masses (1818-1883)
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| Kopimism | a modern-day religion that considers file sharing (aka data sharing) and copying of information to be a sacred virtue and a form of worship(Founded by Isak Gerson) p
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| Loas | a god in the voodoo religion of Haiti
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| Lokayata | is an ancient school of Indian materialism. It is considered as one example of the atheistic schools in the Hindu tradition
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| Ludwig Feuerbach | "The heavenly Father is love personified and deified in the
religious imagination", argued that human beings must have created religion in an attempt to assert themselves against their natural limitations
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| Majority Group Status | they have been encouraged to think of themselves as being in superior position to study reality, usually well-educated white, older, males who are also wealthy
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| New Age Spirituality | an umbrella term that describes a contemporary religious movement, not an organized religion, usually focuses on astrology
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| New Atheism | advocates the view that superstition, religion, and irrationalism should not simply be tolerated
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| Non-realist Religion | those who hold that religious claims are not about realities that transcend human language, concepts, and social forms
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| Non-Theist | generally been used to describe apathy or silence towards the subject of gods and differs from atheism, or active disbelief in any gods
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| Obatala | an orisha in the Yoruba religion
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| Odu | the Yoruba name for God
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| Ogun | Ogun is the god of war and iron
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| Olodumare | The Supreme God or Supreme Being in the Yoruba pantheon
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| Ori | it means "head", he is the "god" of spiritual intuition and destiny, it says that when things are a bit rough, call on him for help and "maybe" if you do everything right, he can attend your demands.
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| Orisha | forces of nature (parts of god) who mediate between Olodumare and humanity
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| Orun | Heaven
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| Orunmila | Yoruba deity of wisdom, knowledge, and omniscience
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| Oshun | commonly called the river orisha, or goddess, in the Yoruba religion and is typically associated with water, purity, fertility, love, and sensuality
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| Oya | goddess embodying femininity
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| Prime Mover | Aristotle called the thing that caused the universe to go into constant state of motion
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| Renaissance Humanism | a worldview centered on the nature and importance of humanity, that emerged from the study of Classical antiquity
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| Richard Dawkins | one of the four horsemen of new atheism who is an evolutionary biologist
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| Ritual Atheist/Agnostic | they may find utility in the teachings of some religious traditions
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| Santeria | Way of the Saints
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| Sea of Faith | an organization with the stated aim to explore and promote religious faith as a human creation, symbolizes the diminishing influence of Christianity
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| Secular Humanism | nonreligious, espousing no belief in a realm or beings imagined to transcend ordinary experience
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| Seeker-Agnostic | unsure about the existence of a god or gods and does not hold a firm ideological position
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| Shango | Yoruba God of Thunder, Lightning & Justice
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| Sigmund Freud | Psychoanalyst, The “Divine Father" (1856-1939)
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| Soft/Weak Agnosticism | the belief that the existence or non-existence of a Deity or the nature of ultimate reality is unknowable in the present moment but could possibly be knowable at some point
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| Sunday Assembly | a non-religious gathering co-founded by Sanderson Jones and Pippa Evans in 2013
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| Thomas Jefferson | Jefferson mentioned his redaction of Christian scripture to close friends but never published it; the finished product was intended solely for his own personal use
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| Vodou | a monotheistic religion, which recognizes a single and supreme spiritual entity or God, known as Mawu-Lisa
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| Yemoja | goddess of the river and mother of all other Yoruba gods
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| Yorubaland | the homeland and cultural region of the Yoruba people in West Africa
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| Problem (Atheism) | ignorance
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| Solution (Atheism) | knowledge
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| Techniques (Atheism) | reason, science, skepticism and critical inquiry
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| Exemplars (Atheism) | freethinkers who think for themselves rather than follow the secondhand teachings of prophets, messiahs, priest, and other authorities
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| Different types of Nones | Intellectual Atheist/Agnostic, Activist Atheist/Agnostic, Seeker-Agnostic. Anti-Theist, Non-Theist, Ritual Atheist/Agnostic
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| Parody Religion | (Founded 1970s by Ivan Stang )A mish-mash of different beliefs taken from all sorts of religions and conspiracy theories
(J.R. Bob Dobbs, Jehovah 1, Slack)
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| Problem (Yoruba) | disconnection
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| Solution (Yoruba) | to reconnect ourselves to our destinies, to one another, and to sacred power
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| Techniques (Yoruba) | divination, sacrifice, and spirit/body possession
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| Exemplar (Yoruba) | the orishas
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| The Four Horsemen of New Atheism | Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Daniel Dennett and Sam Harris
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