Nature of Religion and Religion in Australia pre-1945

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Across
  1. 4. belief in many gods and goddesses: Hinduism is an example of a polytheistic religion
  2. 5. person who believes that government and education should not be connected to religion.
  3. 8. a religion that holds that there are beings that exist beyond the known universe that are not subject to the laws of nature;polytheism and monotheism are the two principal types of transcendent religion.
  4. 11. highly sophisticated networks of relationships governing interactions between members of Aboriginal language groups.
  5. 12. excessive devotion to a particular religious denomination
  6. 15. belief in a single God: Judaism,Islam and Christianity are monotheistic faiths
Down
  1. 1. person who holds the view that you can neither prove nor disprove the existence of God and that the essential nature of things is unknowable.
  2. 2. a religion that holds that gods,goddesses or divine spirits live within nature and that the universe was created by these spirits and is maintained by their power.
  3. 3. a European term that refers to the essence of truth in Aboriginal religious beliefs
  4. 5. natural land formations where Aboriginal Ancestral Spirits interacted with creation
  5. 6. a person from one of several Protestant denominations beyond the Church of England who believed in a different set of doctrines and/or a different style of worship. Often coming from the Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian or Congregationalist denominations.
  6. 7. the inherent rights of Aboriginals to their land, forming the basis of a movement designed to ensure the preservation of Aboriginal spirituality and culture.
  7. 9. anti-Jewish sentiment. Opposition to and persecution of the Jewish people and their religious beliefs and practices.
  8. 10. all the people in a religious organisation who are not clergy.
  9. 13. person who follows or upholds a religion or doctrine.
  10. 14. a common view among Protestants from the 1890s on that openly disapproved of consumption of alcohol, gambling, dancing and Sunday leisure time activities in general.