Judaism
The Hebrew Bible is also called this acronym by Jewish communities.
What is the Tanakh?
This word is the Hebrew equivalent for the Greek word Christos (the term associated with Jesus Christ)
What is messiah?
Who is the Prophet Muhammad?
This term describes a ritual practiced in many different Native American groups, often as a practice to bring their traditions together.
What is pan-Indianism?
Catherine Albanese states that religion can be boiled down to these 4 C's.
What are Code, Creed, Cultus, and Community?
This holiday ushers in the beginning of the Jewish New Year, often in mid-September.
What is Rosh Hashanah?
The three major groups within Christianity
What are Orthodox, Catholic, and Protestant?
The two major branches of Islam
What are Sunni and Shia Islam?
This is the name for the indigenous peoples whose land is where Lafayette College sits.
Who are the Lenni Lenape / Delaware nation?
Who argued that religion "is the sigh of the oppressed creature"?
Who is Karl Marx?
These three people from the book of Genesis are known as the Patriarchs.
Who are Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob/Israel?
The first pope within the Roman Catholic Church
Who is Peter?
These three pillars of Islam are done annually to daily.
What are salat (prayer), zakat (almsgiving), and sawm (fasting)?
This ritual involves the piercing of one's torso with hooks, hanging around a singular pole, and praying.
What is the Sun Dance?
Arguing in the work The Future of an Illusion, he states that religion is a collective neurosis
Who is Sigmund Freud?
This group of second temple Jews develop into the rabbis of the early rabbinic period.
Who are the Pharisees?
This indigenous farmer was the person who encountered the Virgin of Guadalupe at Tepeyac.
Who is Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin?
Name two of the four first caliphs, or religio-politcal leaders of the new Islamic empire.
Who are Abu Bakr, Omar, Uthman, and Ali?
This town in Minnesota is the place where 38 + 2 Dakota men were hanged on December 26, 1862.
What is Mankato?
This theorist argues that religion is "a unified system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things, that is to say things set apart and forbidden, beliefs and practices which unite into one single moral community...all those who adhere to them.”
Who is Emile Durkheim?
Name three ethnic groups within Judaism.
Who are the Ashkenazim, Mizrahim, Sephardim, Yemenite Jews, Beta Israel (Ethiopia), Cochin Jews (India), Bene Israel (India), Kaifeng (China), Mountain (Caucus Mountains)
Martin Luther chose these two sacraments to remain in his vision of a new Protestant church.
What are baptism and communion/eucharist?
an Islamic legal term referring to independent reasoning by an expert in Islamic law
What is Ijtihad?
Ta moko, a ritual practice and art done by the indigenous Maori people of New Zealand, is more broadly understood as this kind of practice.
What is tattooing?
This theorist argues that religion is “a system of symbols which acts to establish powerful, pervasive, and long-lasting moods and motivations in men by formulating conceptions of a general order of existence and clothing these conceptions with such an aura of factuality that the moods and motivations seem uniquely realistic.”
Who is Clifford Geetz?