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Appendix C

HUM 130 Week 1 Vocabulary Quiz

Define these terms in your own words.

Immanence is more of a spiritual thing and means
1. Immanent
existing or remaining, restricted mostly to the mind.
A set of beliefs, came about at the beginning of time and
2. Religion
another way of division among society.
Belief that there is at least one god, one who is a creator
3. Theistic
and ruler of the world.
4. Monotheistic
Belief of one single god, also the most common type.
Something that is nonreligious such as profane music
5. Profane
and vulgar language.
6. Polytheistic
Belief of multiple gods, belief in the more modern world.
A unified whole in which all things are explained by a
7. Monistic
single system.
A belief that has been established and held by a religion,
8. Dogma
or any type of organization.
A term that is for both, religious and non religious
9. Nontheistic
groups.
10. Transcendent
To suppress others; supreme or preeminent.
To take on the life form of another body or human life
11. Incarnations
form.
A Buddhist tradition, seeing the nature of something or
12. Kensho seeing something for what they really are and nothing
else.
13. Atheism
A religion that believes in no gods.
To secure the belief of gods and no gods, that the
14. Agnosticism knowledge of believing or not believing in god is rather
impossible.
Something someone or a group of people may do to
15. Rituals
incorporate their spiritual symbolic values into actions.
A picture, word, letter, or even sound that is put in to
16. Symbols
represent something else.
A traditional tale that gets passed on from generation to
17. Myths generation, usually a sort of hypothesis about the way
something works or the way something may happen.

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18. Orthodox
To confirm a religion.
19. Routinization of An organization being picked apart by the absence of an
charisma important leader.
A political theory that there should be one ruler to control
20. Absolutists
all power.
21. Charisma
A very powerful trait among a person’s personality.
22. Fundamentalism
Belief of strict rules in a religion.
A movement that studies the consciousness of a
23. Phenomenology
person’s first- person point of view.
24. Liberal
Favorable to reform and progress.
Pursuit of communion with a variety of awareness
25. Mysticism
through direct contact and experience.
Someone who believes and maintains their religious
26. Heretic beliefs considering the fact that other people may not
carry those same beliefs.
27. Sacred
Devoted and dedicated to a religion.
A spiritual belief that everyone carries, one in which is
28. Soul
believed to live on even after death.

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