Ancestral worship/cult
Ancient (matrix) civilization hypothesis
Ancient astronaut hypothesis (Erich von Däniken et al)
Animism
Archetype
Augustine, St. (5th cent. AD)
Belief
Bible
Biblical Religions
Blasphemy, Sacrilege, Desecration, Profanation
Book religion
Caesaropapism
Cargo cult
-A religious movement which appears in (in many pre-industrial societies)
reaction to a society’s interaction with a technologically more advanced society.
-Jon Frum, Vanuatu
Cave art
-appeared 40,000 years ago
-it’s a code full of abstract symbols
Cayce, Edgar
CE - Common Era
Charisma, Charismatic cult, leader, etc.
Church
Cosmogony
Creator, Creation
Creationism
Cult (all meanings)
Culture
Deism
Deity
Demiurge
Denomination, Confession
Determinism, Reductionism
Divination
Doctrine (Teaching)
Dogma, Dogmatic
Dualism
Ethic, ethics
Evolution
Faith
Fetishism
Fideism
Formal religion
Forteana
-Charles Fort
-Credible evidence marginalized by adherents of scientism
Fundamentalism (“religious fundamentalism” in the focus of our attention)
God
God’s Kingdom
Hallucination
-Sensory perception in the absence of external stimuli
-Many adherents of dogmatic scientism suppose that hallucinations can account
for all experiences that cannot be explained by the mainstream paradigm
-This is, however, a useful approach, but hallucinations cannot account for
everything (e.g. near death experiences)
Henotheism
Heresy
Hierarchy
Holy
Ideology
-Reduces all religion to a qualitative, immaterial mind
Idealism
Imperial (state) religion
Initiation
Intelligent design
Kahal
Legend
Magic
Mana
Materialism; Reductionist/Deterministic Materialism
- Formulated by P. Laplace over 200 years ago
- Dominant Scientific Paradigm
- Scientism (e.g. Dawkins)
Minimum of religion
Monism
Monotheism
Morals, Morality
Myth, Mythology
Mythological religion
Neuropsychological hypothesis
-David Lewis-Williams
-Spiritual experiences the result of DMT
New Religious Movements
Numinous
Orthodox, Orthodoxy (all meanings)
Orthopraxy
Panentheism
Pantheism
Pastor
Philosophy
Polytheism
Pragmatic
Prayer
Priest
Primitive religion (Religion “of the past” or "by-gone")
Reductionism, Determinism
Reincarnation (Rebirth)
-Shanti Devi case, 1930
-Sobha Ram case, 1960s
Religion
Religious landscape
Religion of the Book, Book religion, Scriptural religion
Religious professionals
Religious projection
Religiosity
-A set of cultic, often solely external, characteristics of a human
-Often perceived as equal to spirituality but not necessarily coinciding with the
latter
-Adherence to a specific, unique, well defined system of dogmas (often in the
form of a “philosophical” construct of comprehensive explanations of the
universe) and ritualism not aimed at achieving immediate goals
Rite
Ritual
Sacrifice
Sage
Saint
Schism
Scripture, Holy Writ
Sect, Sectarianism
Shaman, Shamanism
Spirituality, Spiritual
Supernatural
Symbol
Symbolism (naturalistic, schematic, idiomatic)
Symbolic thinking
-First signs appeared 100,000 years ago
-Cave art 40,000 years go
Syncretism
Taboo
Theism
Theistic Evolution
Theodicy
Theogony
Totemism
Traditional religion (all meanings)
Tribal religion
Umma
Vulgate
World Religion
Xenoglossy
-the paranormal phenomenon by which one acquires the ability to speak a
language which one supposedly could not have acquired through natural means