RELIGIONS OF THE WORLD – General Vocabulary
AFTERLIFE
AGNOSTIC
ATHEIST
AUTHORITY
AVATAR
BELIEF SYSTEM
CHAOS
CHURCH
CLERGY
CODE
COMMUNAL WORSHIP
COMMUNITY
CONTEXTUAL
CONVERSION
COSMOS
CREATION
CREED
CULT
CULTURE
DENOMINATION
DIVINE
DIVINITY
ECUMENICAL/ECUMENISM
EMERGE/EMERGENT
ENLIGHTENMENT
ESOTERIC
EXOTERIC
ETERNAL
EVIL
FAITH
FASTING
FEMININE
FORGIVENESS
FOUNDER
FUNDAMENTALIST
GOD
GODDESS
GOOD
GURU
HENOTHEISTIC
HIERARCHY
HOLIDAY
HOLY
HOLY DAY
HUMAN PERSON
ICON
IMMORTAL
INCARNATION
INCULTURATION
INITIATION
INSTITUTION/AL
INTERFAITH
INTERNALIZE
I-THOU (Buber)
LAY
LITURGY
MANDIR
MASCULINE
MATRIARCHAL
MEDITATION
MINISTER
MORTAL
MONOTHEISTIC
MYSTERY
MYTH
ORDER
ORDAINED
ORDINATION
PAGAN
PASTOR
PASTORAL
PATRIARCH
PATRIARCHAL
PHILOSOPHY
Fall 2012
POLYTHEISTIC
PRAYER
PRIEST
PROFANE
RABBI
REINCARNATION
RELIGION
RITE OF PASSAGE
RITUAL
SABBATH
SACRAMENT
SACRED
SACRED SCRIPTURES
SACRIFICE
SEASONS
SECT
SHAMAN
SHRINE
SIN
SOUL
SPIRITUALITY
SUPREME BEING
SYMBOL
SYMBOLIC
SYNCRETIC
SYNOGOGUE/SHUL
TEMPLE
TEMPORAL
THEISTIC
THEOLOGY
TIME: CHRONOS/KAIROS
TRADITION
TRADITIONS
WISDOM TRADITION
WORLDVIEW
WORSHIP