Complete the passages using the words below.

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Give English definitions to the following terms.

Find in the text English equivalents of the following words and use them in the sentences of your own.

одушевление явлений природы, обожествлять, откровение, искупительный, предшественник (предвестник), сбор данных, возвышение; (возвеличение), эмпирический, тем временем.

Oriental studies, monotheism, polytheism, theology, ethnology

Scientific, oriental, non-confessional, ethnology revelation, religious, Oriental studies, social sciences, theology , comparative.

European countries have extremely different ^a ________ cultures and state-church relationships.

The ^b________________ study of religion did not fall from heaven any more than the books of ^c________ it studies did. Its pundits have devised several competing accounts of its origins.

According to Eric Sharpe the emergence of 'comparative religion' 'represented the germination of seeds planted and watered over many centuries of Western history. Sharpe even suggests that 'the entire history of the study of religion in the Western world ... is an extended prelude' to modern ^d________ religion.

During the late 1800s, the study of religion found particularly enthusiastic reception among Romanians. King Charles I of Romania had a vivid interest in ^e________ ________ and comparative religion and, as a correspondent and friend of Max Müller, proposed to organise the 11th International Congress of Orientalists at Bucharest.

Although this chapter focuses on the study of religion as a specialised, 'compartmentalised', and 'departmentalised' academic subject, the scientific study of religion has also been advanced in a variety of other humanistic and ^f________ ________ that were gaining recognition in the nineteenth century, such as ^g________, philosophy, diverse branches of philology, classical studies, ^h________ and Islamic studies, ⁱ________, sociology, and psychology. Many scholars from these disciplines made a far more lasting impact on the study of religion than those holding chairs in comparative religion or the history of religions.