Key Terms
A worldview that holds a belief in a divine power beyond the human or purely physical world
What is a transcendent religious worldview?
An example of a ritual or ceremony in one of the religious traditions studied is: (100 points for each ritual named and its corresponding religion)
e.g.
What is whirling? Sufi Islam
What is Baptism? Christianity
What is smoking ceremony? Indig. Australia
The name for the category of religions that includes Hinduism and Buddhism.
What are the Indus religions?
Central to indigenous spirituality, and focused on the Land are the interconnectedness of these three aspects of the world. (100 points for each correct answer)
What are the Human World, the Physical World and the Sacred (or Spiritual) World?
The Aztec world is divided into five of these.
What are the Five Eras (or Suns)?
A worldview that expresses the belief that the divine dwells within the individual.
What is an immanent religious worldview?
The Tripitaka of Buddhism is an example of this one characteristic of religion.
What are sacred texts?
The name for the category of religions that includes Christianity, Judaism and Islam
What are the Abrahamic religions?
A plant or animal that represents a person or groups connection to the ancestral beings within the land.
What is a totem?
In the Aztec pantheon, Ometeotl played this role.
What is the creator god?
What is the top hierarchy?
What is the principle of duality (male and female)?
A way of looking at the world, defining reality and responding to the enduring questions
What is a worldview?
This characteristic of religion is informed by the sacred texts and enacted by its believers.
What are ethics?
The third largest world religions.
What is Hinduism?
The complex system of belonging and responsibility within a clan. Based on familial relationships but also links with one's totem.
What is kinship?
The Aztecs practiced a variety of daily rituals.
What are:
- offerings
- prayers
- games
- sacrifice
A worldview that supposes that the world is populated by spiritual or divine beings associated with material things
What is spiritualism or polytheism?
Religion makes these contributions to the life of an individual.
400 points for each correct answer.
e.g. What is guidance towards an ethical life?
What is a sense of belonging/unity?
What is a response to the enduring questions of existence?
This monotheistic religion of 25-30 million adherents is primarily practiced in the Punjab region of India
What is Sikhism?
A concept which incorporates the past, present and future reality as a complete and present reality.
What is metatemporal(ity)?
According to the Aztec religion this was the prime factor in determining what happened to a human after they died?
What is the manner in which you died?
A worldview that believes that the material, physical universe is all that exists. There is no such thing as spirit or soul, and every phenomena can be explained by natural laws and reason.
What is materialism or naturalism?
This word beginning with 'p' is the word for the core beliefs of a religious tradition.
For example: The main p_____ of Buddhism is a belief in the Three Jewels: the Buddha, the Dharma and the Sangha.
What is a paradigm?
This controversial religion began in 1953 in America and claims around 10 million adherents worldwide.
What is Scientology?
(Also the name of a children's book) The Dreaming story of siblings Buhwi Bira and Baribun recounts the Dreamtime story of which two celestial bodies.
What are 'Sun and Moon'?
Caused the fall of the Aztec empire.
What is the Spanish Invasion/ Hernan Cortes / Smallpox and gunpowder?