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Ethnocentrism |
we tend to judge other views by the standard of our own worldview |
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Chronological Snobbery |
we are "the best and the brightest", since we are later we assume that we are better that the older ideas down when they weren't really dumb |
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Empiricism |
our culture puts more faith in science than we we do in god(s), we have become unsure in things that used to be fact |
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What are 5 reasons humans turn to religion? |
1) Fear 2) Wonder/Awe: explanations for why things are the way they are 3) Dreams: the netherworld communicates with our culture 4) Sense of a soul: death is the final separation of the soul from the body 5)Spiritual dimension exists and can enliven things |
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Animism |
a spirit inhabits the world |
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Prehistoric Religion |
primal/preliterate, no written record |
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What is included in a community? |
Animals, plants, geography, cultural rules, weather/seasons, animism/spirits, cultural artifacts |
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Characteristics of Primal religions |
-weather/catastrophe -continuous contact -everything is oral -no distinction between religion and secular -space is more concrete -beginning of the world is good and the future gets worse(look up to older people) -ohmens are important -shaman(spiritual specialist), medicine man(heal), priest(symbols), magicians(troublemakers) |
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Three views about a creator in primal societies |
1)no creator and the world just happened 2)creator walked away and let other spirits do what they want (indifferent) 3)creator still active in the world |
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How epistomology informs metaphysics questions |
using reason to observe the world seeing cause and effect relationships. reason is reinforced by authority of traditions and people. |
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how should humanity respond to the reality they know--ethics? |
primary responsibility is to the group and my decisions impact more than the visual world |
