Religious Studies 101
INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF RELIGION
Fall 2007
Quiz 2 Study Sheet

The quiz will consist of fill-in-the-blank sentences based on the following terms:

Christianity:

Pharisees, Sadducees, Essenes, Zealots

Qumran community

Dead Sea Scrolls

apocalyptic thought

Herod

Pontius Pilate

Christos

Messiah

Constantine

Protestant Reformation

Jesus of Nazareth

Paul of Tarsus

faith vs. law

Gentile

synoptic Gospels

New Testament

Q

Kingdom of Heaven

70 C.E.

Gospel of Thomas

Gospel of Mary Magdalene

Great Schism

baptism

Eucharist

Teresa of Avila

Ritual:

sacrifice

rite of passage

liminal / liminoid

communitas

Islam:

Muhammad

Islam

Kaaba

Sunni

Shi'i

imam

prophet

Qur'an

hadith

jihad

shirk

Five Pillars

Sufism

Confucianism:

Kongzi (551-479)

Analects

Heaven (Tian)

humanity (jen / ren)

ritual propriety (li)

honorable person (chün-tzu)

Tao

virtue (te)

Fingarette's interpretation of li

Hinduism:

Vedas

Upanishads

Three Great Gods

Devi

Shakti

Four Varna

caste

Path of Knowledge

Path of Devotion

bhakti

Four Stages of life

"twice-born"

Indus River Valley

Ganges River

Aryans

Agni

Soma

Indra

Kali

Saraswati

one/many and personal/impersonal (conceptions of the sacred)

nirguna-brahman

saguna-brahman

atman

karma

samsara

moksa

maya

Ramayana

Mahabharata

Bhagavad-gita

Arjuna

Krishna

OM/AUM

mantra

prana

Laws of Manu

varnashramadharma

puja

darsan

Sanskrit

Brahmanism / Hinduism

asceticism

Shankara (8th century)

Advaita Vedanta

yoga (as explained in the Yoga Sutra)

theophany

material nature (prakrti)

three gunas