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Religious Studies
101 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 |