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| Question | Answer |
| Immanent Dimension | The divine powers dwelling within the human form. E.g. Indian Religions such as Hinduism and Buddhism. |
| Transcendent Dimension | The diving powers dwelling outside the human form. E.g. Semitic Religions such as Christianity, Judaism and Islam. |
| Dreaming | The Dreamtime is the beginning of knowledge, from which came the laws of existence. Explains how the world came to be. |
| Sacred Sites | Places that are holy for a certain religion, this can include places for prayer, reflection and visit. E.g. Churches, Temples or other Sacred Places. They have a spiritual importance. |
| Totems | The second level of kinship. Each person has 4 totems that represent their nation, clan, family group and individual. Totems define people's' roles and responsibilities, and their relationships with each other and creation. |
| Ancestral Beings | Are spirit entities from the early days of the world, according to the Dreamtime of Australia's aboriginal tribes. They believe the spirits of their deceased ancestors never left, they are present in the land, the spirits of ancestral being are passed onto individuals before birth. |
| Kinship | Establishes their relationship to others and to the universe. A grouping which determines marriage partners, bonding. Kinships are different groups from different areas. They are system of relationships in Aboriginal Culture. Family groupings which can include non-blood relatives. |
| Adherent | Someone who supports a particular party, person, or set of ideas. |
| Polytheism | More than one God |
| Monotheism | There is only one God |
| Ancestral Beings | Spirit Entities from the dreaming |
| Clan | A small group of family. |
| Tribe | A group of Clans. |
| Mecca | Where Muhammad was born and hence the holiest place. |
| Bedouin | Arab desert nomad |
| Akhira | Life after death |
| Allah | the God - affirms that there is only one God. |
| Caliph | The four successors of Muhammed - 'rightly guided'; defenders of faith'. |
| Five Pillars | foundation of faith - confessions of faith, prayer, almsgiving, fasting, pilgrimage. |
| Hadith | recorded traditions which maintain sayings/examples (Sunnah) of Muhammad. |
| Haram | those things that are forbidden. |
| Islam | ‘submission’ to the will of God; a further meaning is ‘peace’. |
| Jurisprudence | the process/science of interpreting Qur’an and Hadith to arrive at a correct decision. |
| Ka’ba | located in Mecca, Islam’s holiest site; the Qur’an states that it was built by Ibrahim and Ishmael. |
| Mecca | birthplace of Muhammad-place of sacred pilgrimage for all Muslims |
| Ramadan | the ninth month of the Muslim calendar when able adults undertake rigorous fasting. |
| Salat | prayer-five times daily which assists adherents over their whole day in submission to Allah |
| Shahada | the first Pillar: ‘There is no God but Allah and Muhammad is his prophet’. |
| Shari’a | law that defines the path a Muslim must follow in life. |
| Sunnah | the acts and sayings of the Prophet; source of teaching after the Qur’an. |
| Sunni | ‘path’- the way of Muhammad; approximately 85% of Muslims are Sunni; accepts all four caliphs. |
| Shi’ia | ‘the party of Ali’; emphasis on suffering; specific system of law; majority of expression in Islam. |
| Tawaf | circling the Ka’ba during Hajj. |
| Tawhid | There is only one God and only this one God can be worshipped; pivotal belief of Islam. |
| Ummah | The universal community of Islam. |
| Zakat | A tax to provide for the needs of the poor and needy; usually 2.5% of a person’s income. |
| Baptism | A religious act of purification |
| Apostles | Students whom Jesus had chosen and trained for a mission of healing and preaching |
| Parable | A short story containing a religious lesson |
| Resurrection | The bringing of a person back to life |
| Sacrament | A religious ceremony that celebrates an outward sign of an inner spiritual grace |
| Messiah | A leader regarded as the saviour of a particular country, group, or cause. Jesus for christianity |
| Variant | A form or version of something that differs in some respect from other forms of the same thing or from a standard. |
| Liturgy | A form or formulary according to which public religious worship, especially Christian worship, is conducted. |
| Gospels | The four gospels that we find in the New Testament, are of course, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. The first three of these are usually referred to as the "synoptic gospels," because they look at things in a similar way, or they are similar in the way that they tell the story. |
| Creed | A formal statement of Christian beliefs, especially the Apostles' Creed or the Nicene Creed. |
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