Review Activities
Alternative Text for Accessibility
Number 1. sacred power
Correct Answer: numinous
Number 2. The intense psychological and emotional experience of the sacred
Correct Answer: mysterium tremendum
Number 3. A sacred space that functions as a center around which the world is organized
Correct Answer: axis mundi
Number 4. Originally a burial mound; the distinctive sacred structure in Buddhism
Correct Answer: Stupa
Number 5. A symmetrical diagram, circular or square; symbolic representation of the universe, reality, or those energies depicted as. deities, demons, Bodhisattvas, and the Buddha
Correct Answer: mandala
Number 6. The scriptures of Islam; they contain the revelations received by Muhammad
Correct Answer: Qur'an
Number 7. A distinct class of religious specialists found who undergo strenuous initiations by which they gain control over the spirits and are able to use them in healing and in flights to the spirit world
Correct Answer: shamanism
Number 8. The structure in Mecca that Muslism believe was built by Abraham for the worship of the one God.
Correct Answer: ka'ba
Number 9. the realm of the extraordinary, memorable, momentous, eternal, and ultimate reality
Correct Answer: sacred
Number 10. the realm of the ordinary, chaotic, ever changing world of human activity
Correct Answer: profane
Number 11. a doorway between the sacred and the profane
Correct Answer: hierophany
Number 12. Making right by some ritual act or offering for the injury or sin done to some other person or god
Correct Answer: expiation
Number 13. Act of appeasing, pacifying, or making favorable, often through some form of sacrifice to a deity
Correct Answer: propitiation
Number 14. An epic poem in Hinduism that reports a conversation between Krishna and Arjuna.
Correct Answer: Bhagavad-gita
Number 15. The embodiment of a god in human form
Correct Answer: incarnation
Number 16. An incarnation of a Hindu deity
Correct Answer: avatar
Number 17. That which is of greatest importance to individuals; the depth dimension of human experiences.
Correct Answer: ultimate concern