Task 1. Match up the word and the definition.
Date: 2015-10-07; view: 424.
| 1. communion | a) a collection of writings that is regarded as sacred in a particular religion |
| 2. fundamentalism | b) catholics who regularly attend a church |
| 3. Scripture | c) restraining from eating all or certain foods for a religious reason |
| 4. the Vedas | d) speaking to the God that one believes in |
| 5. the Koran | e) the belief in an old and literal, sometimes extreme form of a religion as set out in holy books |
| 6. congregation | f) the ancient sacred literature of Hinduism |
| 7. parish | g) an area which has its own church including the priest and people who live there and attend the church |
| 8. lent | h) a particular form of religious service |
| 9. liturgy | i) a church rite or ceremony during a Christian church service at which people eat bread and drink wine |
| 10. prayer | j) the sacred book of the Muslims, containing revelations made to Muhammad by Allah |
| 11. minister | k) a clergyman in a Protestant church |
| 12. Messiah | l) the belief that after death the soul of a person passes into the body of another living creature |
| 13. reincarnation | m) in Christianity the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit in one God |
| 14. prophet | n) in Hindu and Buddhist religions the ultimate state of spiritual enlightenment |
| 15. The Trinity (The Holy Trinity) | o) a person who is believed to be chosen by God to say what God wants to say to people |
| 16. Nirvana | p) a person who promises to rescue and succeeds in rescuing people from very difficult situations |
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| Some Religious Symbols and Notions | | | Task 3. Find in the second column synonyms for the words in the first. |