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What is Atheism?
The denial of the existense of a personal god (opposite of Theism)--or, for some today, of any spiritual reality.
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What is Theoretical atheism?
- Is the position that no such deities or spiritual reality exists.
- (Deities = A God, divine character or nature, especially that of the SupremeBeing; divinity.)
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What is Functional atheism?
- Holds that even if deities or spiritual reality exists, humans are on their own in reaching the ultimate goal.
- (Deities = A God, divine character or nature, especially that of the SupremeBeing; divinity.)
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What does consumerism mean?
Term used to designate a modern secular religion in which the acquisition of material things is ultimate.
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What is cosmogonic myth?
Is the story that tells the ordering of reality.
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What is eschatological myth?
Is the story that tells of the end of the current age and the beginning of a new one.
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What is the difference between evaluative versus descriptive?
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What does functional definition of religion means?
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What is functional methods (e.g., psychology, sociology, anthropology.)
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What is the definition of religion?
Human transformation in response to perceived ultimacy.
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What is monotheism?
- The belief in one all-powerful personal deity who created, sustains, and will judge the cosmos.
- (Deity = A God or Godness.)
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What is myth?
- A story about the sacred that is foundational, creating the basic patterns of life for people who accept the story as true for them.
- (Sacred = Devoted or dedicated to a God or to some religious purpose.)
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What does periodic rituals mean?
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What does phenomenological method means?
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What is philosophy of religion?
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What is polytheism?
Is a belieft in a multiplicity of personal deities.
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Religious (theological) approaches to studying religion.
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What does rites of passage mean?
It means rituals that mark and facilitate the transition from one state of life to the next, typically at birth, puberty, marriage, and death.
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What is rituals?
Is a symbolic action in response to perceived ultimacy, based on myth.
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What does secular religion means?
- Is to have nonspiritual, this-worldly ultimacies.
- (Wordly = Of or pertaining to this world as contrasted with heaven, spiritual life, etc. earthly, mundane.)
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What is symbol?
Is an object, word, or action that points toward and allows experience of and/or participation in perceived ultimacy.
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What is theism?
Belief in one or more personal deities.
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What is cosmology?
- The study of (or a view of) how the universe (all reality) is ordered. A cosmogony is a theory or story of how the cosmos originated.
- (Cosmos = The world or universe regarded as an orderly, harmonious system.)
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What is eschatology?
Teaching about or study of the "end time," which will occur at the climax of history, according to the religions that originated in the Middle East.
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What is secular?
Having to do with observable reality, as opposed to the spiritual.
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