Ch. 12 - Religion

Question 1

Belief and ritual concerned with supernatural beings, powers, and forces

Answer 1

Religion

Question 2

Belief in souls, or doubles

Answer 2

Animism

Question 3

Belief in multiple deities, who control aspects of nature

Answer 3

Polytheism

Question 4

Belief in a single all-powerful deity

Answer 4

Monotheism

Question 5

A sacred, impersonal force, so named in Melanesia and Polynesia

Answer 5

Mana

Question 6

Sacred and forbidden; prohibition backed by supernatural sanctions

Answer 6

Taboo

Question 7

Use of supernatural techniques to accomplish specific ends

Answer 7

Magic

Question 8

Formal, repetitive, stereotyped behavior; based on liturgical order

Answer 8

Ritual

Question 9

Rites marking transitions between places or stages of life

Answer 9

Rites of passage

Question 10

The in-between phase of a rite of passage

Answer 10

Liminality

Question 11

Intense feeling of social solidarity

Answer 11

Communitas

Question 12

Animal, plant, or geographic feature associated with a specific social group, to which that is sacred or symbolically important

Answer 12

Totem

Question 13

A system, often religious, for imagining and understanding the universe

Answer 13

Cosmology

Question 14

A part-time medico-magico-religious practitioner

Answer 14

Shaman

Question 15

Social movements aimed at altering or revitalizing a society

Answer 15

Revitalization movements

Question 16

Postcolonial, acculturative religious movements in Melanesia

Answer 16

Cargo cults

Question 17

Cultural, especially religious, mixes, emerging from acculturation

Answer 17

Syncretisms

Question 18

Rejecting the modern for a presumed earlier, purer, better way of life

Answer 18

Antimodernism

Question 19

Advocating strict fidelity to a religion’s presumed founding principles

Answer 19

Fundamentalism