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    World Religion Midterm Test Reviewer

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    This document provides definitions for key terms related to religious beliefs and systems. It defines monism as rejecting separation between concepts like matter and mind or God and cosmos. Monotheism believes in one god, like Christianity, Islam, and Judaism, while polytheism believes in multiple gods, like Hinduism and Shintoism. Agnosticism is uncertainty about gods, and atheism is denial of religious beliefs. Theism involves faith in god/s. It also briefly introduces important religious figures like Confucius, Buddha, Abraham, Muhammad, Moses, and Jesus Christ who founded or were important in major world religions.

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    This document provides definitions for key terms related to religious beliefs and systems. It defines monism as rejecting separation between concepts like matter and mind or God and cosmos. Monotheism believes in one god, like Christianity, Islam, and Judaism, while polytheism believes in multiple gods, like Hinduism and Shintoism. Agnosticism is uncertainty about gods, and atheism is denial of religious beliefs. Theism involves faith in god/s. It also briefly introduces important religious figures like Confucius, Buddha, Abraham, Muhammad, Moses, and Jesus Christ who founded or were important in major world religions.

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    This document provides definitions for key terms related to religious beliefs and systems. It defines monism as rejecting separation between concepts like matter and mind or God and cosmos. Monotheism believes in one god, like Christianity, Islam, and Judaism, while polytheism believes in multiple gods, like Hinduism and Shintoism. Agnosticism is uncertainty about gods, and atheism is denial of religious beliefs. Theism involves faith in god/s. It also briefly introduces important religious figures like Confucius, Buddha, Abraham, Muhammad, Moses, and Jesus Christ who founded or were important in major world religions.

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    INTRODUCTION TO WORLD RELIGION AND BELIEF SYSTEMS

    REVIEWER
    I. Multiple Choices.
    II. Fill in the blanks.
    III. III. Essay.

    MONISTIC/MONISM - A philosophy or doctrine that rejects the existence of a separation or duality in


    either sphere, such as that between matter and mind, or between God and the cosmos.
    The doctrine that there is only one ultimate being.

    MONOTHEISTIC/ MONOTHEISM – Believe in the existence of one god religions like Christianity, Islam,
    Judaism, Zoroastrianism, Shangdi and Atenism.

    POLYTHEISTIC/ POLYTHEISM – The belief in the existence of multiple gods like Hinduism, Taoism,
    Shintoism, Modern Neo Paganism.

    AGNOTIC/ AGNOSTICICM - A person that insists that nothing is known or can be known of the presence
    or essence of God or something other than material phenomena and a person who expresses neither
    belief nor disbelief in God.

    ATHIEST/ATHIESTSM - It is, in the wider definition, a lack of belief in the presence of gods. More
    generally, atheism is a denial of the idea that every religion exists. In a much smaller context, atheism is
    simply the position that there are no religions.

    THEISM - Faith in the presence of a god or gods, particularly the belief in one god as the creator of the
    world, the interference in it and the maintaining of a personal relationship with his creatures. Belief in
    the presence of divine reality it is commonly relating to monotheism, as opposed to pantheism,
    polytheism, and atheism.

    COFUNCIUS - was a Chinese philosopher and politician of the Spring and Autumn period who was
    traditionally considered the paragon of Chinese sages. He Emphasis on personal and constitutional
    morality, the correctness of social relations, equity, compassion and honesty.

    SIDDARTHA GAUTAMA BUDDHA - A philosopher, a beggar, a meditator, a spiritual teacher, and a


    religious leader who resided in ancient Nepal. He is regarded as the father of the world religion of
    Buddhism, and worshiped by most Buddhist schools as the wise Somebody who transcended Karma and
    fled the cycle of creation and rebirth.

    ABRAHAM - He is a traditional patriarch of the Abrahamic faiths, including Judaism, Christianity, and
    Islam. In Judaism, he is the founding father of the Covenant of the Images, the unique bond between the
    Hebrews and God; in Christianity, he is the divine progenitor of all believers, whether Jewish or Gentile;
    and in Islam, he is seen as a link in the chain of prophets that begins with Adam and culminates in
    Muhammad

    MUHAMMAD - He was an Arab spiritual, social, and political leader and father of Islam. According to
    Islamic theology, he was a prophet, sent to preach and to affirm the monotheistic teachings of Adam,
    Abraham, Moses, Jesus, and the other prophets. He is considered to be the last prophet of God in all the
    major sects of Islam, although some western religions depart from this view. Muhammad has united
    Arabia into a single Muslim polity, with the Quran as well as his teachings and practices forming the
    basis of Islamic religious belief.

    MOSES – Also recognized as Moshe Rabben is the most prominent prophet in Judaism, and an important
    prophet in Christianity, Islam, the Baha'i faith, and a number of other Abrahamic faiths. In the biblical
    and Qur'anic story, he was the king of the Israelites and the lawgiver to whom the authorship of the first
    five books of the Bible, the Torah, or the "acquisition of the Torah from heaven," was credited.

    JESUS CHRIST -
    JAPAN
    JAPANESE EMPERORS OR EMPERORS
    MT. ARARAT
    MT. TABOR
    TEMPLE MOUNT
    SPIRIT
    SPIRARE
    RELIGION
    INDIA
    CHRISTIANITY AND ISLAM
    UNIVERSALIZING/UNIVERSALIZING RELIGION
    JUDAISM
    EXCLUSIVE/ EXCLUSIVE RELIGIONS
    NON-EXCLUSIVE/ NON-EXCLUSIVE RELIGIONS

    COVERAGE WILL BE LESSON 1 TO LESSON 3- Reading will help much.

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