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23 Cards in this Set
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Human transformation in response to perceived ultimacy.
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Religion
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The study of religious faith, theory, and practice from the perspective of a believer.
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Theology
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A technique that looks at how religion is practiced as well as how it relates to human experience without judgement.
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Descriptive
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Study of the development of a religion over time.
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Historical
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Explores how religion impacts human relationships.
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Functional
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To understand a religious tradition frm the perspective of a believer. Does not pass judgement on the merit of a religion.
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Phenomenological
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Religious membership of everyone in a society and are born into it.
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Ecclesia
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Large, organized religion not officially linked to the nation-state but accepted by society.
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Denomination or Church
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Smaller religious orgnaization antagonistic to mainstream society that breaks away from another denomination.
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Sect
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Smaller, selective, exclusive group outside the existing religious traditions in a society.
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Cult
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The manipulation of other beings through spells, incantation, or other means.
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Magic
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Closeknit relationship between on group of humans and a species of plant, animal, or a force in nature.
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Totemism
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A person, object, or idea that must be avoided due to its potentially polluted status and extreme power.
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Taboo
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A person imbued with the power to communicate with the spirit world and is able to cure the ill, counteract spells, and interpret dreams.
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Medicine Man
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Holy person who has been possessed or taken over by a spiritual power and becomes intermediary between the corporal and celestial worlds.
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Shaman
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Insight into the obscure and hidden.
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Divination
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Rituals demarcating changes in status within the group as well as changes in the person's physical characteristics.
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Rites of Passage over the Lifespan
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Eskimo peoples of North America and Greenland.
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Inuit
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Western Division of the larger tribe of Native Americans known as Dakota.
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Lakota
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Native Americans located in Northern Arzona.
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Hopi
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Native Americans located in Tennessee, Carolinas, Va, Georgia, and Alabama areas.
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Cherokee
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Tribe of people found in southwest Nigeria and parts of Togo. Creator diety Ifa. VOODOO
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Yoruba
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Tribe of people located in the are of Mali.
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Dogon
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