Month 5 – Word of the Day 25
Tariki means “Power of the other”
This category shall have posts on a new word a day. The vocabulary series is for the young and the old who would like to learn or brush up their vocabulary.
Tariki means “Power of the other”
Pneumatikos means In Greek, spiritual. Used to refer to a person in whom the element of spirit predominates over the soul and the body.
Deism means A rationalist Enlightenment philosophy, best represented by a school of thought popular among English writers of the 17th and 18th centuries. According to this view, God is seen as Creator, but as one who stopped being involved with the world sometime after it was created.
Secularization Thesis means A historical process in which religion is losing a presumed central place in society, perhaps as an unavoidable consequence of modernization, through institutional differentiation, changing patterns of legitimation and authority, rationalization, privatization, and individuation. It implies a unilinear historical development positing an inevitable decline of religion and /or religiosity.
Capitalism means The doctrine that private ownership and free markets should govern economies.
Gradualism means Belief that things proceed by degrees
Illuminism means Belief in an inward spiritual light
Varna means Caste, class, the four major social divisions in Hindu society.
Alexithymia means an inability to describe emotions in a verbal manner.
Vagary means an unpredictable instance, a wandering journey; a whimsical, wild or unusual idea, desire or action.