ancestor worship
Tian
Dao
Qi
yin-yang
Mandate of Heaven (Tianming)
Analects (Lunyu)
Ren (humanity)
li (ritual)
Confucius
Mencius
Xunzi
Laozi
Zhuangzi
wuwei ("non-action")
Shinto
Amaterasu
Kami
Ise
Matsuri
New Religions
Meiji Restoration
State Shinto
Shinran
Dōgen
Nichiren
Rinzai and Sōtō
The Pure Land
Zazen
Three Treasures / Refuges
Śakyamuni
Jātaka tales
Sanskrit and Pali
Karma
Samsara
Nirvana
suffering (duhkha)
impermanence (anitya)
No-self (anātman)
Four Noble Truths
Eightfold Path
Theravada (Hinayāna)
Mahāyāna
Vajrayāna
karmic vs. nirvanic Buddhism
stupa
Bodhi
Samādhi
prajñā (wisdom)
five precepts
emptiness
Heart Sūtra
Lotus Sūtra
Tantra
engaged Buddhism
bodhisattva
tulku
mantra / mandala / mudra
Vedic Aryans
Sanskrit
Rg Veda
varna-dharma-ashrama
brahmin
kshatriya
vaishya
shudra
untouchable
sannyasin
Atman/Brahman
Upanishads
Agni
Shiva
Vishnu
Avatar
Krishna/Radha
Rama/Sita
Kali
tat tvam asi
karma
samsara
Jains
Mahavira / tirthankara
Bhagavad Gita
bhakti
puja
yoga
advaita vedanta
tantra
Torah
Nevi'im
Ketuvim
Pentateuch
Leviticus 19-26
Noachic Covenant
Abrahamic Covenant
mishpat
tsedaqah
hesed
daat Adonai
Moses
Elohim
HaShem
Adonai
Yahweh
Sinai
Septuagint
Patriarchs and Matriarchs
nabi
decalogue
kadosh
TaNakh
Orthodox
Conservative
Reform
Reconstructionist
mezuzah
tallit
tefillin
Written Torah
Oral Torah
Mishnah
Gemara
Talmud
midrash
aggadah
halachah
mitzvah
Rashi
Maimonides
Moses Mendelssohn
Hillel
Shammai
Yohanan ben Zakkai
Rabbi Akiva
Yehuda ha-Nasi / Judah the Prince
diaspora
Yavneh
587 BCE
b'rit milah
Zohar
Shabbat
kashrut
Ashkenazi
Sephardi
70 CE
The Mourner's Kaddish
seder
The Shema
Ten Words
Apocalypse/Apocalypticism
apostles
Book of Revelation
Canon
Christ
disciples
Essenes
Form criticism
Gnosticism
Gospel of Thomas
Gospel of Truth
High Christology/Low
Christology
John the Baptist
Justification
Kingdom of God
Lamb of God
Logos
Messiah
Messianic secret
Parables
Pastoral epistles
Paul
Pharisees
Pontius Pilate
Q
Resurrection of the body
Son of God
Son of man
Judas
Mary Magdalene
Nag Hammadi
Sermon on the Mount/Plain
Transfiguration
Abba
Septuagint
Christianity
Anabaptists
Apostolic succession
Atonement
Augustine of Hippo
Counter-Reformation
creed
dualism
Eastern Orthodoxy
Eucharist
Heresy
Hildegard of Bingen
Holy Spirit
Iconoclasm
incarnation
Jesuits
John Calvin
justification by faith
Martin Luther
martyrs
Nicaea
Original sin
Pantokrator
Pentecost /Pentecostal
Pope Gregory VII
Pope Leo I
Priesthood of all believers
Puritans
Reformation
Quakers/Society of Friends
sacrament(s)
sola scriptura
St. Francis of Assisi
Chalcedon
Saints
Toleration Act of 1689
Trinity
Vulgate
Unitarians
Vatican II
Qur'an
Muhammad
nabi / rasul
Ali b. Abu Talib
Fatimah
Karbala
Husayn
ahl al-bayt
khalifa
shariah
sunnah / hadith
jihad / ijtihad / mujtahid
'ulama
tauhid
qiyamat
Hajj
zakat
salat / namaz
Ramadan
Ka'abah
Sunni
Shi'a
Sufi
zahir / batin
pir/murid
tariqat
nafs
al-Ghazali
hal / maqam
fana
masjid
imam
jinn
shirk
Abbasids
baraka
dhikr / zikr
ijma
shaykh
sura
umma
wali
"City on a hill"
"free exercise clause"
"establishment clause"
Ann Lee
Anne Hutchinson
Barbara Harria
Christian (Colored) Methodist
Episcopal Church
Civil Religion
Deism
Denominationalism
Disestablishment
Ellen G. White
Fundamentalism and liberalism
"I n I" consciousness
Joseph Smith
Brigham Young
Lwa (Loa)
Malcolm X & Elijah Mohammad
Mary Baker Eddy
Millennialism
Modernism
New Age Spirituality
Orisha / Santeria
Patrick Flores
Pentecostalism
Puritans
Rastafari
Richard Allen
Roger Williams
Social Gospel
The Great Awakening
The Grimke Sisters
The Native American Church of
Unitarianism
Shakers
Sally Priesand
Voluntarism
William Penn
Nation of Islam
ascetic
etic / emic
iconic / aniconic
canon
orthodoxy / orthopraxy
theodicy
myth
ritual
phenomenology
James G. Frazer
magic / religion / science
taboo
The Golden Bough
Emile Durkheim
effervescence
totem
sacred / profane
society as God
functionalism
Rudolf Otto
mysterium tremendum
numinous
Max Weber
charisma / routinization of
charisma
ethical prophets / exemplary
prophets
prophets / priests
inner-worldly asceticism
verstehen
Max Muller
Edward Tylor
animism
William James
Mary Douglas
"The Abominations of Leviticus"
Ninian Smart
Clifford Geertz
"Religion as a Cultural System"
Victor Turner
root paradigm
liminal / liminality
Rites of passage: separation /
liminality / reincorporation
structure/anti-structure
communitas
social dramas: breach, crisis, redressive, action, reintegration or schism
Mircea Eliade
axis mundi
cosmogonic myths
archaic "man"
in illo tempore
sui generis
Sigmund Freud
primal horde
id / ego / superego
Carl Jung
collective unconscious /archetypes
Claude Levi-Strauss
structuralism
synchronic / diachronic
culinary triangle
post-structuralism /
postmodernism
Edward Said / Orientalism
Mary Daly
Talal Asad
memes
reciprocal altruism
"spandrels" / pattern seeking / the belief
engine
Robert Orsi