Ch 6 & 7.1 Flashcards
What is Teleogy?
Study of dealing with ends or causes
What is the modernity of Teleogy?
Redefined as : The idea of progressing
Movement from
- nature to civilization
- emotion to reason
- community to individualism
- cyclical to linear
What is the Christian teleology?
The great chain of being
What is the Karmic teleology?
how ones’ consciousness continues to turn in a cycle (aka the karmic wheel)
Define Karma
action or doing
What are the aspects of the Karmic wheel
- Intention
- Manifestation
- Transmission
- Retribution
- Continuation
What does Intention mean?
act with intention
What does Manifestation mean?
intention manifests in the world
What does Transmission mean?
communicate thoughts/action
What does Retribution mean?
consequences of our karma (aka action)
What does Continuation mean?
without intervention
What is Racialized consciousness?
Race is entangled with how we view society, religion, & progress
What is hybridity?
The process of blending elements from different religious traditions to create new religious systems of belief and practice
What is Conjure?
magical tradition in which spiritual power is
invoked for various purpose
What is Rootwork?
a conjure practice of using herbs
What is voodoo?
A religion practiced in parts of the caribbean
It combines elements of roman catholic ritual with traditional west africa ‘magical’ and religious rites
What is hoodoo?
(aka root work)
Any system of spiritual practice established among enslaved west African communities
What are the functions of conjure?
- Meditation
- Connect with ancestors
- Social responsibility
- Establish Authorities
- Control of one own life
- Sense of empowerment
- Strategies against resistance against oppression
What is the function of rituals?
Building an identity and forming a social group
What is an example of religious hybridity? How so?
Voodoo is an example of religious hybridity because it combines catholic rituals with traditional west African rites
Define ritual
A means of re-telling and re-living a myth
Define Cosmology
The science or theory of the universe as an ordered whole
Define Native American cosmology
Universe as a life system in which everything
had its part
Native American Belief on death
as “a natural cosmic process” and continuation of life
souls remain in various places where they died
Native American values are..
Acceptance of death;
humans as part of natural world;
returning the body to the earth
Native American Practices are…
death songs;
burial mounds;
honoring lands of ancestors
What is the Hindu term for: “the end of
body”
Dehanta
What was the explanation for Dehanta
“the end of body” but not the end of life
What is the Hindu Beliefs about death:
distinction between
body/soul; flow of life, death, rebirth,
and eventual liberation
What is the Hindu Values about death:
detachment; accepting death
What is the Hindu Practices about death:
- open casket;
- cremation (fire)
- dispersal in river or ocean (water)
What is the Christian Beliefs about death:
Incarnation of God in Jesus;
resurrection of the body (Christian);
eternal life; immortality of the soul
(Greek?)
What is the Christian Values about death:
personal responsibility;
acknowledging sins/wrongdoings;
joining with Christ; fear of death(?)
What is the Christian Practices about death:
prayers, scripture readings,
burials in caskets in cemeteries
