Religious Myths and Rituals Final

Flashcards covering key definitions, religious traditions, and historical immigration laws based on lecture notes.

Religion

The belief in the unseen order that there is an unseen order, and that our supreme good lies in harmoniously adjusting ourselves thereto.

Ritual

Actions that help people connect to unseen order.

Myth

A story or narrative that describes unseen order.

Double consciousness

Non white americans who try to navigate their identity as both american and their own ethnic identity and the tension between the 2.

Religious syncretism

Blending of 2 or more religious traditions to create a new tradition.

Dharma

Concept of holding steady.

Samsara

Cycle of rebirth.

An-atman

No self.

The Vedas

Oldest hindu religious texts.

Four Nobles Truth

Life is suffering, the reason for suffering is desire, there is an end to suffering, to end suffering you have to lead a temperate life.

World’s parliament of religion

First time in US that religious leaders gathered from around the globe to share about their religious traditions.

Bhagavat Gita

Text that has narrative of arjuna and krishna dialoguing prior to battle.

Tonantzin

Aztec goddess who was worshipped as fertility goddess and earth mother.

Transubstantiation

Bread and wine turn into the body and blood of jesus.

Glossolialia

Speaking in tongues.

Virgin of Guadalupe

Syncretic image reflecting the blend of Tonantzin and Mary.

Pentecostalism

Religious tradition formed during the 19th century by the convergence of healing and holiness movements.

Chinese exclusion act 1882

The first major federal law to restrict immigration to the United States; it imposed a 10-year ban on Chinese laborers entering the country and barred Chinese residents from obtaining U.S. citizenship.

National origins act 1924

U.S. federal law that severely restricted immigration into the United States and completely excluded immigrants from Asia.

Immigration act/nationality act of 1965

Abolished the discriminatory national-origins quota system that had governed U.S. immigration since the 1920s.

Ethnic religion

Religion that is tied to a specific ethnic group.

Convert religion

Religion that actively seeks new members and is open to anyone, regardless of ethnicity.

Sacraments in Roman Catholicism

Baptism, reconciliation/confession, eucharist/first communion, confirmation, matrimony, holy orders, anointing of the sick.

Two movements forming Pentecostalism

The Wesleyan-Holiness Movement and the Higher Life/Divine Healing Movement.

Second Tepeyac

Offers social services to its congregation including help with navigating immigration and naturalization services.

Embodied devotional performances of Virgin of Guadalupe

Being cold and hungry while walking through snow, mopping floor of shrine for the community, and indigenous dancers performing in honor of guadalupe.