There is a difference between smriti literature and sruti literature. Smriti refers to literature that is heard (meaning it came from the divine) and sruti refers to literature that is memorized (meaning it was passed down each generation and created by humans).
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These are the FIVE GREAT VOWS of Jainism:
These are the FIVE GREAT VOWS of Jainism:
What did you learn from the Crash Course by John Green on th…
What did you learn from the Crash Course by John Green on the Indus Valley Civilization?
What does religio mean?
What does religio mean?
A scholar can actually impact the religion by the act of stu…
A scholar can actually impact the religion by the act of studying it and documenting it.
According to the first reading, How Scholars Study the Sacre…
According to the first reading, How Scholars Study the Sacred, “how” should we study religion; in other words, what is the methodology we should use?
Match the academic with what they are known for in the field…
Match the academic with what they are known for in the field of religion.
What does phenomenology mean in Religious Studies?
What does phenomenology mean in Religious Studies?
What does hagiography refer to and what is an example of it?
What does hagiography refer to and what is an example of it?
In this class, there are several explanations for the origin…
In this class, there are several explanations for the origins of religions. The reading indicates that the sociological and psychological explanations are embraced by scholars today but all of the other theories of the original of religion are rejected, including the anthropological and biological ones.