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1. Individuals who have an inner life of ............................ , meditation, and direct experience of an inexplicable presence may be considered spiritual, though they do not belong to an institutionalized religion.
2. What does the word "religion" means to ".................. back" in Latin.
3. At first religion wasn't ................................... but simply seen as a basic foundation of life.
4. Religions have been found everywhere, through out history because it can be useful as a glue to hold a ........................ together.
5. Religions can be useful by creating harmony in society, and by creating social virtues such as ..............., compassion, altruism, justice, and discipline.
6. Religions propose ideals that can radically ....................... people.
7. The two basic ways of apprehending reality are ....................... thought, and non-rational modes of learning.
8. For those who find security in specific answers, some religions offer ........................... -- systems of doctrines proclaimed as absolutely true and accepted as such.
9. Scientific materialism is a theory used to explain that religion is found in every .................... around the world.
10. The .............................. perspective states that humans invented religion. The supernatural is only imagined.
11. Ludwig Feuerbach was a nineteenth century philosopher who reasoned that the ........................... is only imagined by humans and that only the material world exists.
12. Marx's opinion on religion, in his book The Communist Manifesto , was that religions ...................... people falsely.
13. Mahatma ........................ meditated on the great Hindu Scripture called the Bhavagad-Gita.
14. ............................ is the spiritual phenomenon through which truth is perceived beyond the senses.
15. Encounters with Unseen Reality are given various names in spiritual traditions: ......................., realization, illumination, etc.
16. Some religions use meditation to become "one" with .................................
17, 18, 19. The three perspectives in our text for explaining "why are there religions" are
................................ Perspective: Humans invented religion
................................ Perspective: Religion is useful
................................ Perspective: Ultimate Reality exists
20. Judeo-Christian-Islamic traditions tend to believe in the sacred as .................................... ("God is out there"), whereas many Eastern and indigenous traditions find that sacred Beings are immanent , or are present with them in the world.
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