Ch. 14 Religion

Question 1

Rituals

Answer 1

Stylized performances involving symbols that are associated with social, political, and religious activities

Question 2

Mana

Answer 2

A belief that sacred power inheres in certain high-ranking people, sacred spaces, and objects

Question 3

Worldview

Answer 3

A general approach to or set of shared unquestioned assumptions about the world and how it works

Question 4

Interpretive approach

Answer 4

A kind of analysis that interprets the underlying symbolic and cultural interconnections within a society

Question 5

Religion

Answer 5

Is symbolic system that is socially enacted through rituals and other aspects of social life

Question 6

Holy struggle

Answer 6

A conflict often political or social that believers see as justified by doing God’s work

Question 7

Totemism

Answer 7

A system of thought that associates particular social groups with specific animal or plant species called “totems” as emblem

Question 8

Shaman

Answer 8

A religious leader who communicates the needs of the living with the spirit world, usually through some form of ritual trance or other altered state of consciousness

Question 9

Trance

Answer 9

A semi conscious state typically brought on by hypnosis, ritual drumming, and singing, or hallucinogenic drugs like mescaline or peyote

Question 10

Spirit familiar

Answer 10

A spirit that is developed a close bond with a shaman

Question 11

Speaking in tongues

Answer 11

The phenomenon of speaking in an apparently unknown language, often in an energetic in fast-paced way

Question 12

Polytheism

Answer 12

A type of religion with many gods

Question 13

Monotheism

Answer 13

The belief in a single God

Question 14

World religions

Answer 14

Religions that claim to be universally significant to all people

Question 15

Magic

Answer 15

An explanatory system of cautions that does not follow naturalistic explanation, often working at a distance without direct physical contact

Question 16

Sympathetic magic

Answer 16

Any magical right that relied on the supernatural to produce its outcome without working through some supernatural being such as the Spirit, demon, or deity

Question 17

Rite of passage

Answer 17

Any life cycle rite that marks a persons or groups transition from one social state to another

Question 18

Secular world view

Answer 18

A worldview that does not accept the supernatural as influencing current peoples lives

Question 19

Fundamentalist

Answer 19

A person belonging to a religious movement that advocates a return to fundamental or traditional principles

Question 20

Fundamentalism

Answer 20

Conservative religious movements that advocate a return to fundamental or traditional principles

Question 21

Animism

Answer 21

An early theory that primitive peoples believed which holds that in animate object such as trees, rocks, cliffs, hills, and rivers were animated by spiritual forces or beings