What are examples of “religious questions” of ultimate meaning and purpose in human life? (mark all that apply)

According to Victor Turner, ritual is prescribed formal behavior with reference to beliefs and mystical beings. What critique does Religion for Breakfast offer about this definition of rituals?

Gloria Anzaldúa invokes which concept to describe the liminal and ambiguous state that comes about from a clash of two or more worldviews, cultures, or religions?

What practice may you observe in a park that involves Chi/Qi?

What is the best translation of the Chinese word Qi/Chi (even though it is better not to translate it because it has so many meanings that no single English word or phrase could cover them all)?

Most (but not all!) of today’s dominant religious myths and rituals originated in which context?

The mystical can be defined as a strong, comparative pattern that refers to all those human experiences that express some “hidden” or “secret” communion, even complete identity, between human nature and the really real, however these two are conceived (God, gods/goddesses, ultimate reality, cosmos, the universe, nature). Precisely because of this, mystical traditions generally emphasize _____________________.

Jewish Kabbalah is a set of beliefs and practices that seeks spiritual communion with God; it also proposes a set of reading practices meant to uncover different levels of meaning, including that of Sod, which refers to….

The ancient Israelites–that is, the ancestors of Jews today–broke with surrounding polytheistic practices and insisted that all other or ‘foreign’ gods must be rejected. This is known as the “monotheistic distinction” or “revolutionary monotheism.”

According to the lecture, what do the examples of the Arabic-Islamic category dīn/deen, the Hindu-Sanskrit category dharma, and the Chinese category zongjiao all demonstrate?