Vocabulary 1
It's an original model or type after which other similar things are patterned.
What is an Archetype?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
A sacred agreement between a person and God.
What is a Covenant?
Arabic speaking people refer to the region of Northwest Africa as this.
What is the Maghreb?
This Hindu deity destroys in order to create.
Who is Shiva?
Muslims believe that the first verses of the Quran were revealed to the Prophet Muhammad during this holy 9th month.
What is Ramadan?
The explanation of things in terms of the purpose they serve rather than of the cause by which they arise.
What is Teleology?
The quality of being religious (usually associated with Catholicism).
What is Piety?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
An area in the Eastern Mediterranean that includes Israel, Syria, and Lebanon.
What is the Levant?
The expulsion of an evil spirit from a person.
What is an exorcism?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
He's the prophet that received the word of God known as the Quran.
Who was Muhammad?
The belief in many gods.
What is polytheism?
A college that prepares students to be priests, ministers, or rabbis.
What is a Seminary?
Another name for where the King of Salam is from.
What is Jerusalem?
12 disciples joined Jesus for this meal before he was crucified.
What was the last supper?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
Mormons, Baptists, and Lutherans are sects of this religion.
What is Christianity?
A ceremony in which bread and wine symbolize the body and blood of Christ.
What is Communion?
A person who adheres to a religion other than yours.
What is an Infidel?
Muslims are obliged to visit this city at least once in their lifetime.
What is Mecca?
God, in the form of a burning bush, spoke to this Hebrew prophet.
Who was Moses?
It's the holiday that celebrates the miraculous resurrection of Christ.
What is Easter?
It's the attempt to convert someone from one religion or belief to another.
What is Proselytize?
The time at which something is most powerful or successful / A point directly above.
What is Zenith?
It's the narrow sea passage that separates Spain from Africa.
What is the Strait of Gibraltar?
They are what Moses dropped and broke when he saw his people worshiping false idols.
What were the Ten Commandments?
Siddhartha Gautama is also known as this.
Who was the Buddha?
A selfless concern for the well-being of others.
What is Altruism?
These are three monotheistic religions that worship the God of Abraham.
What are Judaism, Christianity, and Islam?
The area of southern Spain that was under Moorish rule from the 8th-15th centuries.
What is Andalusia?
It's when Muslims take a pilgrimage to Mecca.
What is Hajj?
It's a transcendent state in which there is neither suffering, desire, nor sense of self; a release from the effects of karma and the cycle of death and rebirth.
What is Nirvana?