Hinduism TCU Sage Exam 1 Detailed
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Paul Tillich's definition of religion "Ultimate Concern" : it is the thing you are
ultimately concerned about/ justifiably
ultimate
The academic study of religion is a second order activity that requires many
disciplines
sign vs symbol signs point to something
symbol participates in the power to which
it points; transforms something mundane
into something with meaning
Myth not a negative term; a explanatory model
transcend to go beyond; we are finite/ have a
beginning and an end
How ritual, sacred, transcendence, myth, rituals and stories make something sacred
and symbol tie together by giving it a degree of transcendence
turning it into a symbol, that we tell
stories about
Religion root words Re and Lig: to reconnect or rebind
Theas: God in greed
monotheism: one deity Polytheism
ex: judaism, islam, christianity
multiple deities Henotheism
ex: Hinduism
belief that there are many gods but one Pantheism
supreme god
ex: greek pantheon
everything is divine; god is in everything panentheism
belief that god is in everything but god is agnostic
not reducible to everything
, absence of knowledge; don't have enough atheism
information to say whether there's gods or
not
Belief that God does not exist Why do we have religion
- Sociological explanation: brings people Hinduism
together
- serves a psychological explanation serves
as a crutch or we are hardwired for
religion; we yearn for transcendence
- Existential explanation: want to assign
meaning
Experiential: we have a religious
experience
- No agreed upon hierarchal authority 3 theories about the origins of Hinduism
- No historical founder
- No agreed upon authoritative text
- Most Hindus would agree that the Vedas
are sacred
- Cyclical world view
- First prime minister of India declared
that Hinduism is all things to all people
Conquest: Aryans conquered Dravidians Hinduism is orthopractic
and Vedas are byproduct
Migration: Aryans didn't conquer they just
moved in
Emergence: Aryans are the Dravidians.
Changed so much that it became the same
culture
about right practice Dravidian
language family still spoken today found in Sindhu
the ancient ruins of the Indus Valley
Sanskrit name for the Indus River Vedas
in the process of settling into the Indus four vedas
Valley the Aryans composed these; written
in archaic vedic sanskrit which would
eventually become the sanskrit we know
today
Rig Veda, Sama Veda, Yajur Veda, Atharva Rig Veda
Veda
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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
QUESTION ANSWER
Paul Tillich's definition of religion "Ultimate Concern" : it is the thing you are
ultimately concerned about/ justifiably
ultimate
The academic study of religion is a second order activity that requires many
disciplines
sign vs symbol signs point to something
symbol participates in the power to which
it points; transforms something mundane
into something with meaning
Myth not a negative term; a explanatory model
transcend to go beyond; we are finite/ have a
beginning and an end
How ritual, sacred, transcendence, myth, rituals and stories make something sacred
and symbol tie together by giving it a degree of transcendence
turning it into a symbol, that we tell
stories about
Religion root words Re and Lig: to reconnect or rebind
Theas: God in greed
monotheism: one deity Polytheism
ex: judaism, islam, christianity
multiple deities Henotheism
ex: Hinduism
belief that there are many gods but one Pantheism
supreme god
ex: greek pantheon
everything is divine; god is in everything panentheism
belief that god is in everything but god is agnostic
not reducible to everything
, absence of knowledge; don't have enough atheism
information to say whether there's gods or
not
Belief that God does not exist Why do we have religion
- Sociological explanation: brings people Hinduism
together
- serves a psychological explanation serves
as a crutch or we are hardwired for
religion; we yearn for transcendence
- Existential explanation: want to assign
meaning
Experiential: we have a religious
experience
- No agreed upon hierarchal authority 3 theories about the origins of Hinduism
- No historical founder
- No agreed upon authoritative text
- Most Hindus would agree that the Vedas
are sacred
- Cyclical world view
- First prime minister of India declared
that Hinduism is all things to all people
Conquest: Aryans conquered Dravidians Hinduism is orthopractic
and Vedas are byproduct
Migration: Aryans didn't conquer they just
moved in
Emergence: Aryans are the Dravidians.
Changed so much that it became the same
culture
about right practice Dravidian
language family still spoken today found in Sindhu
the ancient ruins of the Indus Valley
Sanskrit name for the Indus River Vedas
in the process of settling into the Indus four vedas
Valley the Aryans composed these; written
in archaic vedic sanskrit which would
eventually become the sanskrit we know
today
Rig Veda, Sama Veda, Yajur Veda, Atharva Rig Veda
Veda
