Part 1
The idea that all religions have members in almost every country.
What is globalization?
A symbolic story about the origins and the destiny of human beings and their world.
What is myth?
The highest spiritual reality; representative of the gods.
What is divine?
Both of these Chinese faith traditions sought to bring harmony between heaven and earth, self and society.
What are Daoism and Confucianism?
Propelled by European colonialism, this tradition became the first faith to span the globe.
What is Christianity?
Signed by President Lyndon Johnson, this Act abolished the previous immigration system in America.
What is the U.S. Immigration Act of 1965?
That which has the highest value and meaning to a group.
What is ultimate reality?
This ritual guides devotees to travel to sacred places.
What is pilgrimage?
The Chinese concept that describes two opposing but complementary forces that interact to create balance and harmony.
What is yin and yang?
They reject important aspects of modernity and want to return to a more authentic form of religious expression,
Who are fundamentalists?
A founding father in the study of comparative religions, he said, "the person who knows only one religion understands none."
Who is Max Muller?
Empathy necessary to understand the religious languages and messages of different times and places.
What is sympathetic imagination?
Right action.
What is morality?
In these, metaphors for religious experience are primarily drawn from human history.
What are myths of history?
They reject the dominance of science while embracing religious and cultural diversity.
Who are postmodernists?
The era we currently live in that emerged after World War II.
What is postmodern?
Beyond all finite things.
What is transcendent?
The earliest religious stories were these kinds of myths.
What are myths of nature?
The Abrahamic traditions see this, failing to follow God's will, as the problem of life.
What is sin?
Sociologically, this means non-religious.
What is secular?
The sense of being tied or bound by sacred obligations to powers believed to govern our destiny.
What is religion?
Actions that link the individual and the community in engaging with the sacred.
What is ritual?
The universal Dao, which all things share, is the source of this in the universe.
What is harmony?
The political, social, cultural, and economic domination of one society by another.
What is colonialism?
A grand story of a society's beliefs about its origins, destiny, and social identity.
What is a metanarrative?
Belief in the nation as a sacred entity.
What is nationalism?
Peter Berger's book explaining the postmodern reality of choosing between various faith traditions.
What is The Heretical Imperative?
What we call something that matters most to someone... worthy of awe and respect.
What is sacred?
The Abrahamic traditions all tell the myth of these first human beings.
Who are Adam and Eve?
It represents a rejection of capitalism and claims to be modern, secular and scientific.
What is socialism?