experience of the divine or holy presence, sometimes involving intellectual belief and sometimes emphasizing personal trust.
What is faith?
100
the capacity for seeing things from another's perspective, and an important methodological approach for studying religions.
What is empathy?
100
religions commonly begin with the religious experiences of individuals. for example Gautama's enlightenment under the Bodhi tree where he became the Buddha.
what is experiential
100
doctrines,sacred stories and rituals
What is the basic dimensions of a religious tradition
200
the belief in many gods.
What is polytheism?
200
religion begins with this
What is a mystery?
200
this dimension of religion is often recorded in sacred text, or scriptures, along with the myths and the accounts of revelation and other religious experiences that serve as the foundations of religions.
What is doctrinal
200
takes the form of sacred stories that are passed down from one generation to another.
What is mythical
200
most religions teach that spiritual fulfillment is closely related to some form of freedom from death,the ultimate limitation.
What is salvation
300
the transmission of the divine will or knowledge to human beings, typically through myths or some form of religious experience.
What is revelation
300
the understanding of the nature of the universe.
What is cosmology?
300
formal worship practice, often based on the reenactment of a myth.
What is ritual?
300
believing in something namely the creeds, or teachings of that religion.
What is doctrinal
300
"to know just one religion is to know none"
Who is Freidrich Max Muller?
400
the belief that the divine reality exists in everything.
What is pantheism?
400
describes a religion that allows for belief in divine or semidivine beings without the belief in an essentiallly relevant god.
What is transtheistic
400
describes a belief system that holds that there is no divine being.
What is nontheistic?
400
the celebration of mass or receiving communion is an example of this dimension of religion.
What is ritual
400
comparative methodology and empathy
What is two things that enrich our study of world religions?
500
the overcoming of the normal limitations imposed by the human condition, whether temporarily or abidingly.
What is transcendence?
500
a dimension of religion that deals with how we are to act while living in the world.
What is ethics?
500
a category of religious experiences characterized by communing or uniting with the ultimate reality through inward contemplation.
What is mysticism?
500
this dimension of religion answers the question how are we to act while living in this world. An example would be the Christian ideal of loving thy neighbor.
What is ethical
500
what is the human condition? what is our destiny? what is the ultimate reality?