Study Guide 1: Religion 100
Semester: Summer II, 2005
Jeffrey Grupp, Department of Comparative Religion
Western Michigan University
This study guide is updated, and ready for test 1
Introductory Concepts
Religion
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Ritual |
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Doctrine |
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Ethical system(s) |
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Model(s) of reality |
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Model(s) of solving problem of living |
Pantheism
Panentheism
Omnipresence
Monotheism
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There is only one God
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God is separate from nature
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God creates nature
Atheism
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Belief in the nonexistence of divinity
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Belief in the nonexistence of God, but not all sorts of spiritual entities
Materialism
Afterlife
Immortality
Vitalism
Ultimate reality
YR ≠ R
Shamanism
Eastern religion
Western religion
The 'natural person'
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quantum physics and the 'natural person' |
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Surfaces and colors vs. quantum particles |
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the 'unnatural person' |
Mysticism
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Unification of self with God |
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Realization of oneness |
Christianity, Part 1
St. Paul and Jesus
Council of Nicea and the trinity
Greek influence on Christianity
Aquinas's First Cause argument for God's existence
Reading that might help understand Aquinas's argument:
Big bang argument for God's existence
Readings that might help with the Big Bang issues:
http://www.angelfire.com/my/tgoldman0/bigbang.htm
Indian Buddhism
The four movements of Buddhism
Buddha (Siddhartha) and his life and motivation for originating Buddhism
Atoms and moments of consciousness
Why there are only atoms, and why those atoms are point-sized
Momentariness (Buddhist atoms flashing in and out of existence)
Readings that might help with the understanding Indian Buddhism:
http://ccbs.ntu.edu.tw/FULLTEXT/JR-PHIL/ew91343.htm
http://ccbs.ntu.edu.tw/FULLTEXT/JR-PHIL/david6.htm
http://ccbs.ntu.edu.tw/FULLTEXT/JR-PHIL/ew23265.htm
http://www.abstractatom.com/buddhist_atomism_and_the_r_theory_of_time.htm