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| Faith | Unquestioning belief that does not require proof or scientific evidence. |
| Profane | everyday, secular aspects of life. |
| Theism | a belief in a god or gods. |
| Secularization | the process by which religious beliefs, practices, and institutions lose their significance in sectors of society and culture. |
| Ideologies | systematic views of the way the world ought to be. |
| Cult | is a loosely organized religious group with practices and teachings outside the dominant cultural and religious traditions of a society. |
| Sect | a relatively small religious group that has broken away from another religious organization to renew what it views as the original version of the faith. |
| Ecclesia | religious organization that is so integrated into the dominant culture that it claims as its membership all members of a society. |
| Trinity | "God the Three in One." |
| Jihad | struggle. |
| Zionism | the movement to establish and maintain a Jewish homeland in Israel. |
| Rabbi | a teacher or ordained interpreter and leader of Judaism. |
| Jen | having deep empathy or compassion for other humans. |
| Dukkha | physical and mental suffering, pain, or anguish that pervades all human existence. |
| Buddha | "The Enlightened One." |
| Dharma | duties or responsibilities. |
| Civil religion | the set of beliefs, rituals, and symbols that makes sacred the values of the society and places the nation in the context of the ultimate system of meaning. |
| Religion | a system of beliefs and practices (rituals) - based on some sacred or supernatural realm - that guides human behavior, gives meaning to life, and unites believers into a single moral community. |
| Rituals | regularly repeated and carefully prescribed forms of behaviors that symbolize a cherished value or belief. |
| Animism | belief that plants, animals, or other elements of the natural world are endowed with spirits or life forces that have an impact on events in society. |
