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5. How does the Sacred quest define morality?(three things that are considered)-ways of thinking, feeling and acting that address consideration of human welfare animals and plants.6. What are the four stages of life in the Hindu System?a. Studentb. householder-raising a family, working, having someonedepend on youc. retirement/forest dweller-where one separates from the household they take their spouse into the wilderness and engage in activities such as reading writing and poetryd. renunciation/Ascetic*moksha- liberation from death7. Two ethical positions that were discussed in classa. de-ontological=judges the morality of an act based upon a rule or law. Formulated by Kantb. Teleological(consequentialism): an act is right/wrong based upon the consequences of the act 8. Effort or Exertion in islam is described by using which world: ANS; Jihad-struggle within one self9. THe -------states that actions or behaviors are right in so far as they promote “happiness’, wrong as they tend toproduce unhappiness of pain. ANS; Principle of Utility10. What is practical justification? ANS giving reasons for your actions 11. Cosmic Cycling/ Expansion as well as joining the spirit world are examples of -----------salvation in another world. ANS Individual *** four types of salvation (this world other world)12. When referring to salvation/liberation, Moksha is used in the context of which religion? Hinduism13. Traditionally, which sect of Islam was against ‘war’ as a means for expansion? Answer: Shi’i14. In Christian theology the tem kenosis refers to the process of ------. ANS self-emptying aka the emptying of ones will so one will be able to decept his own will 15. What is liberation Theology?related to mlk and Obama – had an impact on the civil rights movement-social justice- bible and problems of society –ANS teological tradition associated with striving for justice for the poor and oppressed16. Which term in religious studies deals with the study of death ANS thanatology17. What is the word for ‘spirit’or in Ancient Greek philosophy?ANS: Pneuma18. What is the book in the Tibetan tradition that deals with death and rebirth (bardo thodal)?ANS the Tibetan book of the Dead19. Apocalypse literally means------?ANS to uncover, to reveal”.20. In Islamic Mysticism, the experience of insight/vision/knowing is referred to as ----ANS: Irfan***21. Swedish theologian Emmanuel Swedenborg worte a detailed description of his journey into the afterlife. Whatwork is associated with this?ANS heaven and hell22. According to Descartes, who proposed the view of substance dualism, the world is split into-----ANS ; the realm of matter/physicality/extension) and the realm of though/mind/ideas(res cognitans) he says these two are fundamentally split23. what does the view of monism suggest? That there is only one reality of which mind and matter are part of . ex;Vedanta(hindu), Plotinus24.-----refers to the state of being aware of an internal or external object. ANS consciousness25. the underworld or “duat” is referred to in the ---book of the dead. Answer: Egyptian26. What is transpersonal Psychology? ANS form of psychology that focuses on the spiritual experiences of individuals (mystical states, peak experiences, meditative or yogic experiences, near-death experience, dbv death bed vidions, psychic happening)27. Richard Maurice book (cosmic consciousness) three forms of consousness embedded in living thingsa. simple consciousness in humans animals and plantsb. self consciousness- awareness of awarenessc. cosmic - 28. What is the secularization thesis? ANS as science , technology and modernity increase, religion loses authority in all aspects of social life and governance29. what is perrenialism? ANS;all spiritual systems share asingle, universal source ***30. what view posits that science is the most authoritative form of knowledge? ANS


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