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62 Cards in this Set
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Common features of primal religions?
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1. Animism
2. Oral Tradition 3. Shamanism |
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In Primal religions, what is the belief that everything is alive, mountains, rivers, oral traditions etc. ?
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Animism
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In primal religions, what is the belief that every person who's special function is spiritual?
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Shamanism
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In the Native American religion, who is the supreme being of the Sioux Indians?
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Waka Tonka
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What is the most common religion practiced by Native Americans?
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Christianity
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Who was the comanti chief that taught native americans the "peyote way"?
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Quanah Parker
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Sioux indian whose teachings were recorded by anthropologists?
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Black Elk
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Indians who practiced this were members of the native american church
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Peyote way
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In Hinduism, what is the called the "endless cycle of birth, death, rebirth"?
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Samsara
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In Hinduism, WHO is the yoga of loving devotion (union with god through loving devotions with god)?
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Bahkti
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Who were the earliest scriptures of the hindus?
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The Vedas
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imperfectly translated, but means soul (conscious self).
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Atman
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Who is KRISHNA and incarnation of?
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Vishnu
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What is the sanscript word that means, "liberation from endless cycle"?
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Moksha
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What is the sancript word that means, "all is well, soul of something, or he is well"?
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Swastika
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Hindu, "destroyer".
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Shiva
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Who was the fierce goddess that is drenched in blood?
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Kali
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Hindu, "Creator"
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Brahma
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Hindu, "Preserver, sustainer"
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Vishnu
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Elephant-headed son of Shiva?
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Ganesha
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Hindu song of the lord?
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Bhagavad Gita
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Hindu sacred sound formula, the words that can be translated, or sometimes just sounds
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Mantra
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Hindu sacred diagram, graphic, emblem?
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Mandala
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Hindu, "Absolute Divine Reality"?
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Brahman
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Hindu language of "The Vedas"?
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Sanskrit
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River that created advanced waterways, pipes, sewage systems, indoor plumbing, sidewalks, and where the Dravidian people were farmers, merchants and artisans?
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Indus River Valley
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What are 3 important aspects about Theravada?
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1. oldest and 1st school of buddhism
2. way of the elders 3. practiced in S.E. Asia |
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Buddha, "liberation from suffer"?
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Nirvana
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What is the Buddhist doctrine of Interdependent Origination?
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Everything is everything. Everything is mutually inclusive, qualified interdependence only.
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Buddhism's "Enlightened Being", prepared to enter nirvana, but doesn't enter or is reborn, help others?
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Bodhisattva
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True of False: The eightfold path is one of the 4 noble truths in buddhism
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True
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Zen for the break through moment, "Ah'ha!" or, moment of awakening
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Satori
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Buddha meaning for community. One of the 3 Refuges of Buddhism
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Sangha
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What goes around, comes around
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Karma
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True or False: Buddhists regard Buddha of the one true god
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False. They don't regard as a god at all.
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In Buddhism, what are the 3 marks of existence?
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1. Suffering
2. Impermanence 3. No eternal self |
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In Taoism, who wrote the book of the way and it's power?
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Lao Tzu
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reoccurring motif that represents the not static, ever changing, and ever flowing balance from the inexhaustible imbalance, and that is flowing water, flowing water is the reoccurring motif
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Tao Teh Ching
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Taoism's symbol for eternal, dynamic harmony?
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Ying and Yang
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Confucianism's principle of empathy, compassion and love?
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Jen
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Confucianism's principle of reciprocity, golden rule, don't do what you don't want done to you
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Shu
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What were the teachings of Confucius, the writings?
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The Analects
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What was the Chinese book of oracles associated with Confucius?
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I-Ching
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One and only god in Zorastrianism?
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Ahura Mazda
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The Jewish law, 5 books of moses
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Torah
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True or False: messiah means one and christ means savior
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False
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Christianity
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Emperor Constantine of Rome
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In the Islamic religion, who is the patriarch of Judaism and Islam?
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Abraham
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Who was Muhammad's first wife, a widow that he married?
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Khadija
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What is the Arabic way of saying God?
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Allah
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What is the cubical building in the heart of Mecca called?
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Kaaba
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Islam, what is "the pilgrimage" called?
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Hajj
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What is the Islamic religious law based on the Quran and Hadith?
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Shari'a
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Islamic report in Arabic, reports of the saying and doings of Muhammad?
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Hadith
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Islamic holy Doctrine?
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Quran
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This Islamic figure was:
1. 4th of the 4 rightly guided caliphs 2. Muhammad's first cousin 3. married Muhammad's daughter and Muhammad adopted him 4. 4th of the successors of Muhammad 4 |
Ali
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What language did Jesus speak?
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Aramaic
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True or False: Islam recognizes profits in what religion?
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Christianity and Judaism
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True or False: There is a school of daoism that practices the cultivation of energy and powers
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True
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True or False: Muslims call their religion Islam, but do they call it Muhaddiasm?
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False
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True or False: Muslims believe in the miracle birth of Jesus
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True
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True or False: The Star of David is an emblem of Judaism, but it is also a emblem in Hinduism and buddhism
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True
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