Review for Exam One

Review for Exam One

Religion 100

Review terms from selection one (Young) in the An Intro to Rel textMake sure you know how Marx, Otto, Freud and Tillich each defined religion review the study questions.Abington v. Schempp court case

The issue

Conclusions

1st Amendment material on religious expression (establishment and free exercise clauses, neutrality, separation of church and state)

The relevance of studying religion

reasons it is relevant

Palestinian Israeli conflict

religious pluralism

Faith Development

- Fowlers definitions of faith and faith development

- basic understanding of each stage (know the nickname, not the technical name of each stage)

- implications

Arguments relating to the existence of a supreme being

ontological

cosmological

moral

divine designer

personal experience / revelations

Problem of Evil / Pain

Theodicy Problem

World-views

Types of evil

Two ways of responding to evil

Responding to evil as a problem

Responses of major world religions

Defining religion

- kinds of definitions for religion or approaches to studying religion

- Literal meaning of religion

- Tillichs definition and Youngs (Selected Reading) definitionNotes on authentic religion

Inauthentic religion

Pseudo-religion

Crypto-religion