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Sam Gill "The Academic Study of Religion"
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traditional comparative approach has been biased towards western cultures and the "Great Religions"
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Christ (Toward A Paridigm Shift)
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males lack bonding with mother
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androcentricism
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patriarchy
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knowledge beyond culture
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cultural relativism
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assoc with prehistoric religions
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fertility
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least problematic with regard to def of religion
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trasncendental reality
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neolithic period
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10,000 years ago
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world's people assoc with Islam
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21%
Indonesia |
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nonreligious
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16%
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of the "great" or "world" religions
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they are not universal or have universal potential
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Christian Protestant
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35%
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Primal-Indeginous
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10%
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Edward Tylor
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minimal definition of religion "belief in spiritual beings"
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Materialist
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athiest
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postmodernism
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no opinion or prospective is privilidged
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Gill states
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religious study of religion has greater value
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functionalist analysis of religion
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does not rely orn truth or falsity of religion
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rule of falsifiability
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"the speed of sound is faster than the speed of light"
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cosmogany
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creation myth or stories of any religion
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monotheism
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hindu many manfestations of God
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henotheism
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belief in many gods where one is more exalted or superior
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post modernism
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gradual encroachment of the :other:
in what was once considered privilidged space |
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Zoroastrianism
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oldest religion Persian empire three magi
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vodoo doll is
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sympathetic magic
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divination
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tarot cards
palmistry |
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participant-observation
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relation to field work participate and observe without puttin gtoo much emphasis on ethier one
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anonomys christian
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inclucivist - not aware that they are Christians
says that everyone is touched by the spirit of Christ |
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pluralism
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belief that all religions are ok
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enlightenment
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intelict movement in 17th and 18th cen (progress of human civilization)
(oppossed view from religion) |
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scapulamancy
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believe that groups burn the polar bear the scapula bone will lead them to good hunting grounds .. whatever way the bone is facing
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"law of Contact"
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once something has come into contact with somethng
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sanctum sanctorium
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highly guarded religious place
most sacred place in the religion |
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liminal period
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between transitional stage and intro
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socially heterogenous
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post modern society is described as this
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ethos of objectivity
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closest link to cultural relativism because
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ethos of eros and empathy
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closest to going native
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John Hick's analogy based on cartography
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people can trnslate maps from a 3d globe to a 2 dimension paper .. the same for religions...they can be translated differently based on language, cluture and geography.
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Yanomamo culture myth
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brave masculine warlike men created An arrow shot God on the earth and blood dripped. God became preg in his legs .. from the left leg came the woman and the right leg came the men
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4 great world religions that originated in INDIA
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Hinduism Jainism Buddhism Sikhism
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2 great world religions CHINA
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Taoism Confuscionism
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4 religion do not worship God or Gods
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Jainism Taoism Therabuddahism Confuscionism
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4 largest or great in order of size
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Christianity Hindu Islam Buddhism
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tribal indegenous "non-literate"
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no written records or books...
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example of reactment or comemorates mythology
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communion Trancsubt?
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map
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don't forget
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Trinadad largest religion sect
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Catholicism
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10% of all African people
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assoc with tribal ind
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high or basic God of the tribal ind
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thought of as so withdrawn from human affairs that he is not overtly worshipped
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lie closest to the Nature/culture interface
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slash and burn agriculture
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"it is not the conc of men that dertermines their exsistencebut, on the contrary, their social existence determines their concness"
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Karl Marx
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Christology debates disagree on
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divine/human nature of Christ
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reproduction versus feeding
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Thomas Malthus
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Truth is not necessarily a function of reason
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Michel Foucault
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Postmodernists reject western scientific paridigm but in doin so they
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fail to acknowledge "knowledge beyond culture"
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Emle Durkheim
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religion is a unified set of beliefs and practices that unite individuals into one single moral community
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Emile Durk
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God is a figurative expression of society
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Max Weber
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religion actually lays the foundation for production of subsistence
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Becker
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least cultural - highly controversial artist
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Becker argues in Denial of Death
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culture and religion are fictions and lies but they help us lead normal lives
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Character traits are
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secret physocis
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BECKER mORALITY pOLICE
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individuals who expect others to abide by their rather narrow minded concepts and "proper" culture
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Hindus
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don't kill cows but they do eat them (CASTE SYSTEM)
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physical structure one of 3 in Orisha
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implements of Gods are kept CHAPelle
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African component of the Orisha religion
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Yoruba
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African God warfare
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Ogun
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2 or more women as wives
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polygyny
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The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life
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Emile Durk
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The Protestant Ethic and the Spirite of Capitolism
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Max Weber
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Anality
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Becker used this term to refer to the animal(biological)side of the human
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Perogun
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outdoor altar for sacrifice Orisha
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anal personality in Becker's Terms
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more anal more he is trying to protect himself form the problems and fear of his own dying and death
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syncretism
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joining of two or more cultures to form somethng different
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Frederich Nietzsche
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Death of God Idea
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inauthentic man
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keirkergard - not genuine-not a true person of culture follows the crowd and afraid to face reality
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olorun
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The African God who sent his oldes son to create the world blah blah and the in the end he left it to the ORISHA and retreated
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Orisha in Trinadad 5 diff cultural traditions
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Catholicism spiritual Baptist Kaballah Vodoo Yoruba
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4 African derived religions in the New World
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Santeria Vodoun Orisha Candomble
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Tribal/ind newborn theory
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ghost child
trick to get them to love it and then take it away |
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emic
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understanding only in a particular culture may be confusing to outsiders
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etic
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understood universaly
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law of least effort
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human universal recognized by cult materialists
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3 examples of what post modernists would refer to as metanarratives
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Hinduism Capitalis Marxism
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Michel Foucault traditional Christianity demand silence
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people are following dogm and traditions of the culture they are familiar with they cannot step over the line and be different .. if they do it is heresy
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