Vocabulary Project: keep a notebook of 241 vocabulary words and definitions. Divide your
notebook into sections for the Introduction and for each religion: Hinduism, Buddhism, Daoism,
Confucianism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The words in each section will be numbered. Please
use a small one-subject notebook for this project. I will periodically check your progress throughout
the semester and will collect them near the end of the semester for grading. You will find the
definitions in the links on the webpage for the vocabulary project.
Introduction: (23)
1. animism
2. anthropomorphism
3. comparative religion
4. dualism
5. empiricism
6. epistemology
7. esoteric
8. god
Hinduism: (41)
1. Agni
2. Advaita Vedanta
3. ascetic
4. atman
5. avatar
6. Bhagavad-Gita
7. bhakti yoga
8. Brahma
9. Brahman
10. Brahmanas
11. Brahmin
12. caste
13. dharma
14. Ganesha
Buddhism (33)
1. Amita Buddha
2. anatman
3. arhat
4. bardo
5. bodhi
6. bodhisattva
7. Buddha
8. Dalai Lama
9. Dharma
10. dukkha
11. Eightfold Path
12. Five Precepts
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
henotheism
intuition
magic
metaphysics
miracle
monism
monotheism
natural phenomena
17.
18.
19.
20.
21.
22.
23.
pantheism
polytheism
prophecy
rationalism
religion
revelation
theism
15.
16.
17.
18.
19.
20.
21.
22.
23.
24.
25.
26.
27.
28.
guru
jnana yoga.
Kali
Kama-sutra
karma
karma-yoga
Krishna
mantra
maya
moksha
monism
om
puja.
raja yoga
29.
30.
31.
32.
33.
34.
35.
36.
37.
38.
39.
40.
41.
samsara
Sanatana Dharma
Sankhya
Shiva
Shruti
Tantrism
Upanishads
Varnas
Vedanta
Vedas
Vishnu
yantra
yoga
13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
18.
19.
20.
21.
22.
23.
24.
Four Noble Truths
Impermanence
Karma
karuna
koan
Mahayana
Maitreya
mandala
Mantra
Nirvana
Samsara
Sangha
25.
26.
27.
28.
29.
30.
31.
32.
Shakyamuni
skandha
Sutra
tanha
tantra
Theravada
The Three Jewels
Three characteristics
of existence
33. Vajrayana
Daoism: (11)
1. Ch'i
2. Dao
3. Daoism
4. Dao De Jing
5. Feng Shui
6. I-Ching
7. Laozi
8. T’ai chi
9. Wu-wei
10. Yin-Yang
11. Zhuangzi
Judaism: (44)
1. Abraham
2. Aggadah
3. Antiochus IV
4. Ark of the Covenant
5. Chanukah
6. circumcision
7. Conservative Judaism
8. covenant
9. Dead Sea Scrolls
10. Divided Kingdom
11. Elohim
12. Essenes
13. Gemara
14. Halakhah
15. Hasidism
Christianity: (21)
1. Anabaptists
2. Antichrist
3. Apocalypse
4. Apocrypha
5. apostle
6. Arianism
7. atonement
8. baptism
9. canon
10. crucifixion
11. Didache
Confucianism: (23)
1. Analects of Kong Fuzi
2. Ancestor worship
3. Filial piety
4. Five relationships
5. Five virtues
6. Han Feizi
7. Jade Emperor
8. Junzi
9. Kong Fuzi
10. Li
11. Mozi
12. Ren
13. Ru
14. Shang Di
15. Shu
16. Tian
17. Mandarin
18. Mandate of heaven
19. Mencius
20. Ming dynasty
21. Xunzi
22. Zhu Xi
23. Zhongyong (Chung
yung)
16. Holy of holies
17. kashruth
18. Kethuvim
19. King David
20. kosher
21. Maccabean Revolt
22. Mishna
23. Moses
24. Monotheism
25. Orthodox Judaism
26. Passover
27. Pharisees
28. Rabbi
29. Reform Judaism
30. Sadducees
12. disciple
13. Easter
14. eschatology
15. Evangelical
16. Gnosticism
17. Gospel
18. Hell
19. incarnation
20. Last Supper
21. sin.
31. Satan
32. sin
33. Shabbat
34. Shema
35. Sukkot
36. synagogue
37. Talmud
38. Tanakh
39. Temple, first
40. Temple, second
41. Torah
42. Yom Kippur
43. Yahweh
44. Zadokites
Islam: (45)
1. Abu Bakr
2. Ahmadiyya Islam
3. Aisha
4. al –Bukhari
5. al-Ghazali
6. Allah
7. Battle of Karbala
8. Caliph
9. chador
10. Faqir
11. Fatwa
12. faqih
13. fiqh
14. Five Pillars of Islam
15. hadith
16. Hajj
17. Hijra
18. Husayn,
19. Imam
20. Ismailis
21. jihad
22. jinn
23. Ka’aba
24. Mahdi
25. masjid
26. Mecca
27. mufti
28. Muslim
29. Muhammad
30. Nation of Islam
31. Ramadan
32. Rashidun caliphs
33. Sahabah
34. salat
35. sawm
36. Shahada
37. Shi’a.
38. sufi
39. Sunnah
40. Sunni
41. tawhid
42. Ulama
43. umma
44. Qu’ran
45. zakat