Terms
A belief in or worship of more than one God.
What is Polytheism
Seeing, hearing or being aware of something through a personal point of view.
What is perception
The belief that there is only one God.
What is Monotheism
Thinking we know more than we do
What is Dunning-Kruger
IV: Helps us to understand, evaluate, reflect and deepen our relationship with God.
What is Theology.
a dissenting or schismatic religious body.
What is a Sect
a cognitive bias, "I'm better than the average".
What is Illusory Superiority Complex
A preference for scientific methods and privileging of scientific perspectives and methods of thinking.
Finding evidence to confirm our existing beliefs.
What is Conformation Bias
L: The lack of knowledge, understanding and awareness about different cultural, religious and traditional practices leads to racist ideology and beliefs.
What is Ethnocentrism.
The belief that there are conscious spirits in objects in nature and phenomena of nature (MW).
What is Animism
New information contradicting our existing beliefs.
What is Cognitive Dissonance
Considering human beings as the most significant entity of the universe and/or interpreting the world in terms of human values and experiences.
What is anthropocentrism
Take inventory of your own biases, evaluate your sources and speak out.
What is Expanding Your Radius.
S: Learning from factual and documented events in the past.
What is Historical.
A system of beliefs, ceremonies, and rules used to serve and/or worship the supernatural (i.e a God or a group of Gods).
What is Religion
Literacy, misinformation, biases and belief systems.
What is 4 contributions to biases and perceptions.
The study of society, social institutions, and social relationships specifically: the development, structure, interaction, and collective behaviour of organized groups.
What is Sociological
Example: Believing in the value of education while failing to complete school assignments and study for tests.
What is cognitive dissonance.
S: You can learn the different meanings and significance of the symbols in relation to their religion and culture
What is Typology.
A wholistic view that considers human knowledge and being the transcendent without compartmentalization into subject areas.
What is way of knowing and being.
Relies on subjective beliefs in a creator.
What is a Belief System.
An attitude that one's own group is superior or interpreting another group through the primary lens of one's own group.
What is Ethnocentrism
Relies on testable, empirical evidence and observation.
What is Science.
B: Worship excessively and sometimes the rituals and ideas can be quite extreme.
What is a cult.