Key Characteristics
What are beliefs that fit together
Belief Systems
Dread, guilt, awe, mystery
What are characteristic emotional experiences?
One sacred reality
What is monotheism?
structure that underlies religion
What is religious symbolism?
Believed religion is rooted in spirit worship
Who is EB Tylor?
What are stories that express the religious belief of a group?
Central myths
Unlimited by world and all ordinary reality
What is transcendent
Sacred discoverable in physical world and its processes
What is pantheism?
Ganges river, Baptism, Ghulsan
What is water symbolism?
Author of the Golden Bough
Who is James Frazer?
Statues, relics, incense, clothing are examples of what?
Material expressions
Something within the universe
What is immanence?
Sacred reality in the form of many coexisting gods
What is polytheism?
Widespread amongst religious traditions represents death and the spirit world
What are ashes?
God or gods arises from impressions made on children and taken into adulthood
Who is Sigmund Freud?
What are beliefs made real through ceremonies?
Rituals
Shared ideas practiced in a group
What is community?
The denial of the existence of any god
What is atheism?
Mounds, reached by stairs, religious buildings
What is the holy mountain?
People experience aspects of religion through the mysterious
Who is Rudolf Otto?
Rules about human behavior
What are ethics
Certain objects, places, actions that people share
What is sacred
To take no position
What is nontheism?
Divine, awakened, reborn
What are words used in a symbolic way?
Religion is the opiate of the masses
Who is Karl Marx