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21 Cards in this Set
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What is Religion? |
Supernatural means and ends. |
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What is Magic? |
Natural ends, supernatural means. |
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What is Contagious Magic? |
Whatever is done to an object is believed to affect the person who once had contact with the object. |
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What is Imitative Magic? |
To produce a desired effect by imitating it. Ex: Voodoo Dolls |
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What is Animism? |
The earliest form of religion, a belief in spiritual things. |
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What is Antimodernism? |
Rejection of the modern in favor of what is perceived as earlier, purer and a better way of life. |
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What is Communitas? |
An intense community spirit; a feeling of great social solidarity, equality and togetherness. |
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What is Mana? |
A sacred impersonal force existing in the universe. |
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What is Monotheism? |
The belief in a single, all powerful deity. |
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What is Polytheism? |
Belief in multiple gods. |
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What are Rituals? |
Formal, stylized, repetitive and sterotyped words and actions. |
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What is Taboo? |
Set apart as sacred and off-limits to ordinary people. |
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What are Totems? |
Sacred emblems symbolizing common identity. |
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What is Doctrine? |
A set of beliefs put into practice. |
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What is Worldview? |
Answering questions about the ultimate meaning of life and death. Where did we come from? |
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Describe Shamanistic Religion. |
* Part time specialist practitioners * Zoomorphic, Animistic * Individualistic ritual * Ex: Foragers: Chukchee, Paiute |
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Describe Communal Religion. |
* Part time specialist practitioners * Polytheistic (multi-deity) * Harvest and Rite of Passage Rituals * Ex: Ndembu, Iriquois |
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Describe Olympian Religion. |
* Full-time Specialists * Polytheistic * Collective Rituals, Priests * Ex. Aztecs, Rome, Greece, Hindu |
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Describe Montheistic Religion. |
* Full-time Specialists * Supreme Being * Collective Rituals, Liturgical orders * Ex: Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Roman Catholicism |
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What is Liminality? |
Existing apart from ordinary expectations and distinctions; living out of time. |
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What are the three "problems" with Religion, according to Kottak? |
1: If we define religion with reference to the sacred, how do we classify ritual-like behaviors that take place in secular contexts? 2. If the distinction between the supernatural and natural is not consistently made in society, how can we tell what is religion and what isn't? 3. Drunken frenzies are frowned upon by some, and used as a form of worship in others, who is to say which is more religious? |
