Concepts
What is Samsara?
The Hindu cycle of life, death, and rebirth that comprises human existence
What are the 2 themes in the Jewish primary text
Exile and Covenant
Name a gnostic gospel ?
Thomas and Mary
Pagels is concerned with what?
censorship,
* gender, more full and human picture of early movements
The EMIC perspective takes the approach of who?
insider
What was the name of the council held in Constantinople that decided that Jesus was both human and divine was called?
Council of Nicea
The mandate put forth by retelling the Hebrew creation story in Sura 7 from the Quran is
modesty
Name a primary text
Hebrew Bible, Bible, Quran
Ruether sees creation stories as
blueprints for society
What is Bracketing?
It helps us maintain neutrality by identifying our own biases
According to Victor Turner, a___________________________ is a group of people who form a common generic bond during a liminal stage
communitas
Who is known as the father of many nations?
Abraham
Name a secondary text
any theorist
Pagel’s term, _______________ refers to god as understood in both feminine and masculine ways
dyadic
According to Eliade, what is a perennialist?
The belief that there is an essential quality shared by all religions
Five Pillars of Faith in Islam
Shahadah, Salat, Sawm, Zakat, Hajj
What are the themes put forth in the Christian Bible
divinity and suffering
Name the primary texts for
- Judaism
-Christianity
-Islam
- Hinduism
Christian Bible (New Testament)
Quran
Vedas
Arnold Van Gennep's 3 stages of initiation rites
Separation, Transition, and Re-aggregation
What is Varnashramadarma?
social caste, stage in life, duty in life
What is a bris? (what kind of ritual from what religion?)
Life cycle ritual covenant of circumcision within the Jewish faith
What are teh 4 functions of ritual?
Orients participants to space and time
Connects participants to the divine
Connects participants to a larger community (past and present)
Includes the body as an instrument for religion
Name 3 differences between Genesis 1 and Genesis 2
Gender, order of creation, sources
What is Eliade concerned with?
order out of chaos,
sacred space- axis mundi,
orient to the divine,
order of creation
What is luminality ?
the in between