Descriptive Blog Unit 2

Religion
1. set of common beliefs and practices
2. codified as prayer, ritual and religious law
3. refers to both personal and group rituals
4. encompasses traditions, writings, history and mythology
5. refers to personal practices related to communal faith.


Karma
1. total effect of a person's actions
2. determines a person's destiny
3. influence of individual's past actions
4. reincarnation
5. present life is only one in a chain of lives


Nirvana
1. paradise
2. state of freedom
3. extinction of desires and passions
4. ideal condition of rest, harmony, stability or joy
5. supreme goal of the disciplines of meditation


Eightfold Way
1. forms the fourth part of the Four Noble Truths
2. Buddhist tradition
3. three basic categories
4. Wisdom, Ethical conduct, and Mental discipline
5. sense of "perfection"


Reincarnation
1. rebirth of the sould in another body
2. major characteristic of Asian religions, mainly, Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, and Sikhism
3. existence of an immortal soul
4. subject to karma
5. literall "to be made flesh again"


Yahweh
1. God of Israel
2. ancient Hebrew ineffable name for God
3. preserved in the original consonantal Hebrew Bible text
4. a name for God assumed by modern scholars
5. modern reconstruction of YHWH


10 Commandments
1. list of religious and moral imperatives
2. featured prominently in Judaism and Christianity
3. given in passages in two books of the Bible
4. commandments represent the utterances of God
5. given directly by God to the people of Israel


Allah
1. arabic word for "God"
2. mostly used by Muslims
3. in Islam, Allah is the only deity
4. term does not have a plural form
5. term is used by Arab, Christians, and Muslims


Five Pillars
1. Shahadah (profession of faith)
2. Salah (ritual prayer)
3. Zakah (alms tax)
4. Sawm (fasting during Ramadan)
5. Hajj (pilgrimage to Mecca)


Prophet
1. follower from a holy person or thing
2. formal representative of one God
3. a predictor
4. chief spokesperson of a movement or cause
5. person gifted with profound moral insight