Religious Studies: The Key Concepts (Routledge Key Guides)

list of key concepts

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Judgment
Kingship
Knowledge
Language
Last things
Law
Liberation
Liminality
Love
Madness
Magic
Martyrdom
Material dimension
Meditation
Memory
Metaphors
Millenarianism
Modernity
Monasticism
Monism
Monotheism
Music
Mysticism
Myth
Narrative
Nature
Oral tradition
Orthodoxy
Other
Pacifism
Pain
Pantheism
Perception
Performance
Pilgrimage
Play
Pluralism
Politics
Pollution
Polytheism
Possession

Postmodernism

Power

Prayer

Priest

Prophet

Psychology

Purgatory

Purification

Rationality

Reality

Reductionism

Relics

Revelation

Rites of Passage

Ritual

Sacraments

Sacred

Sacrifice

Saint

Salvation

Sanctification

Scripture

Sects

Secularization

Self

Sexuality

Shamanism

Sin

Society

Soul

Space: sacred and profane

Speech acts

Spirits

Suffering

Sun

Symbols

Taboo

Theatrical performances

Theism

Theology

Time