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Absolutist
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Believing in one's received traditions as completely and exclusively true.
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Agnosticism
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Belief that if there is anything beyond this life it is impossible for humans to know it.
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Allegory
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Narrative using symbols to convey abstract ideas.
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Atheism
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Belief that there is no deity
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Awakening
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Full awareness of invisible Reality
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Charisma
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Magnetic attraction, a quality often ascribed to spiritual leaders.
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Comparative Religion
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A discipline that attempts to compare and understand patterns found in different religious traditions.
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Creationism
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Belief that all life was created by God.
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Dogma
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Doctrines proclaimed as absolutely true by religious institutions.
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Enlightenment
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Wisdom that is thought to come from direct experience of Ultimate Reality.
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Exclusivism
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Belief that one's own tradition is the only true religion and that others are invalid.
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Fundamentalism
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Insistence on what is perceived as the historical form of one's religion.
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Gnosis
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Intuitive knowledge of spiritual realities.
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Heretic
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One whose assertions about religion are considered false by his or her religious institution.
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Immanent
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Present in the visible world.
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