VOCABULARY LIST 6

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 572.

TEXT TRANSLATION 6.3. 33

TEXT TRANSLATION 6.2. 26

TEXT TRANSLATION 6.1. 15

How does fundamentalism gain power?

How are we to understand movements such as this becoming powerful at the end of the twentieth century? The last two decades have witnessed the growth and success of two major fundamentalist movements; the New Christian Right (NCR) in the USA and Muslim fundamentalism, which started in Iran and has spread across North Africa.

6.2. ISLAM... 17

6.2.2. Clarke launches guidance on religious education. 21

LISTENING 6.2. Trousers woman' in Islamic World. 25

6.3. BUDDHISM... 27

6.3.2. The real teenage Witches. 30

UNIT 6.

WORLD RELIGIONS AND RELIGIOUS ISSUES

Faith: belief, cult, veneration

spiritual values; to transmit values to a new generation; religious beliefs

regular church-goer; attendance; liturgy;

to give sermons in some language; to preach; to worship; regular worshipper; to pray

secularism; to favour one religion over another; to resolve church-state controversies; the right of the state to accommodate differing religious views; to break off relationship with the church;

free exercise of religion; religious tolerance; religious diversity and multiformity; multiplicity of sects/factions;

to intervene/ to meddle in political life; to recognise/ challenge the authority of…; to persecute; to flee from persecutions; to incite religious hatred

Institutionalised religion; official/established church; non-established church; schism; denomination; confession; sect; heresy; dissent (from); obscurantism; conformity; nonconformity; atheism; agnosticism

theology; religious studies

Christian Religions: Orthodoxy, Catholicism, Protestantism, Anglicanism, the Kirk, Nonconformism (Methodists, Baptists, Pentecostalists);

archbishopric; evangelical; episcopal;

diocese; parish

People in the Church: Pope; archbishop; bishop; vicar; rector; dean; cardinal; Imam; rabbi

priest/ ordained minister; reverend (Rev)

chaplain; clergy; parson; prelacy;

to ordain women as priests;

community; congregation;

Sacraments:

baptism; confirmation; Eucharist; confession,

to observe rites; to take the sacrament;

consecration; sacrifice;

sacriledge; profanation; to desecrate; to defile; to profane;

to curse; to excommunicate; to interdict; to unchurch; to anathematize;

to practice a religion; service; holy mass; prayerbook;

sacred; holy; saint; ecumenic; ecclesiastical; spiritual; mundane; secular; lay; devout; pious; zealous; divine; supernatural; evil; occult;

the Bible; the Holy Scripture; scriptures; testimony; the Ten Commandments; the Old/ New Testament; the Gospel; the Koran;

temptation; sin; mortal sin; hell; inferno; devil; fiend;

prophet; disciple; apostle; infidel; martyr; crusader; saviour; saint; guardian angel; patron saint; to canonize;

Non-Christian religions:

Islam (Muslims, Moslems), Judaism (Jews), Sikhism (Sikhs), Hinduism (Hindus), Buddhism (Buddhists); Confucianism; Paganism;

circumcision

revelation, the Five Pillars of Islam, the Sunni, the Shi'a, converts, supplication, fasting, moderation

imam; rabbi

Places of worship: cathedral; church; chapel; synagogue; mosque; sanctuary; temple