Deity
This is an Aboriginal Australian concept. When it is capitalized, it refers to supernatural-creator beings. When it is lowercase, it refers to the deceased who can assist the living.
Ancestors
This is a natural entity (e.g. an animal, a feature of the landscape) that symbolizes an individual or group that has special significance for the religious life of that person or group - common among Aborigines.
totem
This word means "a story", especially one that conveys sacred truth.
myth
This term refers to a category of religious experiences characterized by communing or uniting with the ultimate reality through inward contemplation
mysticism
According to this Second Vatican Council document, the Catholic Church rejects nothing that is true and holy in any other religion.
This is an example of a trickster figure. (Either Lakota OR Yoruba)
Lakota (Inktomi)
OR
Yoruba (Esu)
This is a ritual of the Lakota and other tribes of the North American Plains that celebrates the new year and prepares the tribe for the annual bison hunt. It is performed in the late spring or early summer in a specially constructed lodge. It also conveys community healing and spiritual centering in the ultimate reality.
Sun Dance
This term refers to that which goes beyond the surface level and the five senses (the normal limitations of the human condition).
Transcendence
This term refers to a framework for understanding the nature of the universe.
cosmology
According to this Second Vatican Council document, the Catholic Church supports religious freedom for Christians and other people of faith, and it rejects any State coercion of non-believers to participate in a community of faith.
Dignitatis Humanae
The Yoruba believe that this is the primary, original power in the universe and all other life forms owe their existence to him, but he is distant and disconnected from human affairs
Olorun
This is a Latin term applied to phenomena in many religions. It can be an entity such as a mountain, tree, or pole that is believed to connect the heavens and the earth and is sometimes regarded as the center of the world. For example, the cotton-wood tree of the Plains Indians’ Sun Dance
axis mundi
This refers to witnessing to the ‘Good News’ (specifically the mysteries of the life of Jesus which are the foundation of the Christian faith) and inviting others into the community (specifically the Church)
Evangelization
The Aborigines have inhabited Australia for 65,000 years. Then in this year, Australia was colonized by the British.
1788
According to this Second Vatican Council document, all people, not just Catholics or Christians or those who believe in God, share one origin (God) and one goal (God).
Nostra Aetate
According to Pope John Paul II, all people (people of all religions) come to recognize that this is the name of God.
Peace
This is a means of seeking spiritual power through an encounter with a guardian spirit or other medium in the form of an animal or other natural entity, following a period of fasting and other forms of self-denial. This ritual is common to many indigenous peoples, including the Lakota and other tribes of the North American Plains.
vision quest
This refers to trying to convert someone through a convincing argument
proselytism
In 2008 the Prime Minister of Australia apologized for the Stolen Generation (which began and ended in these years), however in 2023 Australians voted NO in the referendum to recognize Aboriginal Australians in its constitution and to establish an advisory group to weigh in on relevant issues in parliament.
1910-1970
According to Dignitatis Humanae, the "one true religion" _________ Catholic Church.
"subsists in"
This is the mythic time in Aboriginal Australian tradition when the Ancestors inhabited the earth. Aborigines can encounter the Ancestors through rituals and prayer encounter with the land.
the Dreaming
In the Aztec tradition, this was believed to the the center of the universe (axis mundi), the origin of the entire cosmos.
Teotihuacan
This term refers to a system of social ordering that dictates that specific objects and activities are set aside for specific groups and strictly forbidden for others - due to their sacred nature-common among Aborigines
taboo
Residents of Washington DC “stand on the ancestral lands” of these two (2) tribes/nations.
Nacotchtank People (Anacostia)
Piscataway People
According to Pope Francis, interreligious dialogue requires these two (2) things.
1. security and comfort in one’s own faith identity as a starting point
2. empathy