Chapter 11: Religion

Question 1

Animatism

Answer 1

A religious system organized around a belief in an impersonal supernatural force.

Question 2

Animism

Answer 2

A religious system organized around a belief that plants, animals, inanimate objects, or natural phenomena have a spiritual or supernatural element.

Question 3

Anthropomorphic

Answer 3

An object or being that has human characteristics.

Question 4

Cargo Cult

Answer 4

A term sometimes used to describe rituals that seek to attract material prosperity.

Question 5

Collective Effervescence

Answer 5

The passion or energy that arises when groups of people share the same thoughts and emotions.

Question 6

Cosmology

Answer 6

An explanation for the origin or history of the world.

Question 7

Cultural Appropriation

Answer 7

The act of copying an idea from another culture and in the process distorting its meaning.

Question 8

Filial Piety

Answer 8

A tradition requiring that the young provide care for the elderly and in some cases ancestral spirits.

Question 9

Magic

Answer 9

Practices intended to bring supernatural forces under one’s personal control.

Question 10

Millennarians

Answer 10

People who believe that major transformations of the world are imminent.

Question 11

Monotheistic

Answer 11

Religious systems that recognize a single supreme God

Question 12

Polytheistic

Answer 12

Religious systems that recognize several gods.

Question 13

Priests

Answer 13

Full-time religious practitioners.

Question 14

Profane

Answer 14

Objects or ideas are ordinary and can be treated with disregard or contempt.

Question 15

Prophet

Answer 15

A person who claims to have direct communication with the supernatural realm and who can communicate divine messages to others.

Question 16

Reincarnations

Answer 16

The idea that living beings can begin another life in a new body after death.

Question 17

Religion

Answer 17

The extension of human society and culture to include the supernatural.

Question 18

Revitalization Rituals

Answer 18

Attempts to resolve serious problems, such as war, famine, or poverty through a spiritual or supernatural intervention.

Question 19

Rite of Intensification

Answer 19

Actions designed to bring a community together, often following a period of crisis.

Question 20

Rite of Passage

Answer 20

A ceremony designed to transition individuals between life stages.

Question 21

Sacred

Answer 21

Objects or ideas are set apart from the ordinary and treated with great respect or care.

Question 22

Shaman

Answer 22

A part time religious practitioner who carries out religious rituals when needed, but also participated in the normal work of the community.

Question 23

Sorcerer

Answer 23

An individual who seeks to use magic for his or her own purposes.

Question 24

Supernatural

Answer 24

Describes entities or forces not governed by natural laws.

Question 25

Zoomorphic

Answer 25

An object or being that has animal characteristics.