Religious and Spiritual Concepts: A Glossary, Quizzes of World Religions

Download Religious and Spiritual Concepts: A Glossary and more Quizzes World Religions in PDF only on Docsity! TERM 1 via negativa DEFINITION 1 the mystical way of knowing the highest spiritual reality by negating all finite qualities and characteristics TERM 2 via analogia DEFINITION 2 a way of knowing spiritual reality through the use of analogyex: "God is my shepherd" TERM 3 family resemblance DEFINITION 3 parts in a religion that resemble other ones? idk TERM 4 syncretism DEFINITION 4 blending elements from different cultures or religions to make something new TERM 5 numinous DEFINITION 5 spiritual world TERM 6 hierophany DEFINITION 6 experience of the sacred, an eruption of sacredness into the mundane world TERM 7 liminality DEFINITION 7 In anthropology, liminality is the quality of ambiguity or disorientation that occurs in the middle stage of rituals, when participants no longer hold their pre-ritual status but have not yet begun the transition to the status they will hold when the ritual is complete. TERM 8 myth DEFINITION 8 means story, a symbolic story about the origins and destiny of humans and their world TERM 9 ritual DEFINITION 9 actions that connect the individual and the community to the sacred TERM 10 axis mundi DEFINITION 10 center of religious world, sacred space of their world/religion