Religious Studies 101
INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF RELIGION
Fall 2007
Quiz 1 Study Sheet

The quiz will consist of fill-in-the-blank sentences based on the following terms. You will have 15 minutes to complete it.

Ninian Smart

7 dimensions

definitions of Tylor, James, Tillich, Geertz (just the first phrase), and Streng

religion / spirituality

phenomenology

hermeneutics

Mircea Eliade

sacred / profane

sacred space

sacred time

axis mundi

hierophany

chaos / cosmos

Rudolf Otto

mysterium tremendum et fascinans

wholly other

creature-feeling

transcendent / immanent

numinous experience

mystical experience

cosmogony

eschatology

ruach (Hebrew)

Enuma Elish

Marduk and Tiamat

Babylon / Sumeria

Tanakh (TNK)

J, E, D and P

canonization

Genesis and Exodus

Covenant

Noah

Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob (Israel)

Children (or House) of Israel

Moses

Mt. Sinai

ritual and ethical commandments

Mary Douglas

kosher

King David

Israel and Judah

prophet

Amos

righteousness and justice

Written and Oral Torah

Talmud

Rabbinic Judaism

Temple / synagogue

Babylonian exile

Orthodox / Reform / Conservative / Reconstructionist

Ashkenazi / Sephardi

Maimonides

Zohar

Zionism