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| The tendency to consider material possessions and comforts more important than spiritual matters. Or the philosophical position that nothing exists except matter and that there are no supernatural dimensions to life. |
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| Religion is a collective fantasy- god equals parent who protects, rewards or punishes for obedience or non-obedience. Religion is an illusion from people’s insecurity and neurotic guilt- resembles mental illness |
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| Definition or religion- unified system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things- beliefs and practices unite into one single moral community called a church- religious phenomena are symbols and reinforces of the social order |
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| The experience of the holy bring 2 general responses. 1st is a feeling of great awe or even dread and 2nd is a feeling of great attraction. This give rise to religious beliefs and behaviors. |
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| Once one has found purity or eternal self you see it everywhere “dull submission is left far behind and a mood of welcome… has taken its place |
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| Sacred myths of a group serve basic social purposes- Hero’s journey are stories of separation initiation and return bearing truth to the people- is a form of psychological instruction for individuals |
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| Mircea Eliade- profane: the everyday world of seemingly random, ordinary, and unimportant occurrences. Sacred: the realm of the extraordinary and supernatural, the source of the universe and its values- religion opens the pathway to the sacred. |
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| Referring to an infinite reality in contrast to the finite material world |
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| A system of beliefs declared to be true by a religion |
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| Existing outside the material universe |
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| Rational- you can prove it. Non-Rational- based on faith and personal connection. |
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| The intuitive perception of spiritual truth beyond the limits of reason |
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| God without characteristics |
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| Theistic believing in God or gods. Polytheistic- Believing in many deities. Monotheistic- believing in a single God |
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| Is the belief that there is no deity- there is no god or divine reality |
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| Is not the denial of the divine but not knowing if there is or is not a divine reality. |
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| To demoralize religions we don’t like |
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| All religions are talking about the same thing but are talking about it in different ways |
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| Symbol- visible representation of an invisible reality or concept. Myth- a symbolic story expressing ideas about reality or spiritual history- tells a truth. Ritual- a repeated patterned religious act |
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| A model of the evolution of the universe |
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| Beliefs about the end of the world and of humanity |
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| Adhering to the established tradition of a religion |
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| Someone who holds rigid, literal, exclusive beliefs in the doctrines of their religion |
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| Insistence on what people perceive as the historical form of their religion in contrast to more contemporary influences. This sometimes takes extreme forms. |
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| Flexible in approach to religious tradition- inclined to see tradition as metaphorical rather than literal truth |
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| A member of an established religion whose views are unacceptable to the orthodoxy |
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| Made distinctions between what is perceived by the senses and what is accessible through reason. The soul was superior to the body and the activity of reason preferable to the distraction of the senses. Its underlying belief that all of nature had been created by God for the sake of humanity |
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| The church controlled the education such as having everything written in Latin |
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| Look at all of the evidence then make conclusions |
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| Space is eternal because it is the emanation of “eternal and immutable being” God exists everywhere containing, discerning and ruling all things. Many scientists regard findings as the work of a divine creator or ruler. |
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| Evolution by natural selection- genetic mutations give a competitive advantage over other of its species thus it’s lineage is more likely to survive . |
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| We filter everything so we can understand it |
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| An approach to the study of religions that involves appreciative investigation of religious phenomena to comprehend their meaning for their practitioners. |
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| huston smith:3 perspectives |
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