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Indigenous religions Flashcards

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Until a century ago, scholars focused on religions that

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Had produced written texts

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2
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Holistic cultures

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Every object and act has religious meaning

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3
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Animism

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Everything in the universe is alive and has a soul

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In a world that is animated with spirits, human beings must treat all things _________

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With care

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5
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Tipis

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Circular tents made of animal skins and poles

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Do native religions believe in preserving nature’s resources?

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Yes

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6
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In native american traditions, there is little difference between ________

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The human and animal world

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Sacred time is ________

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Cyclical

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Sacred space

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The doorway through which the other world of gods and ancestors can contact us and we can contact them

Associated with the centre of the universe

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Sacred space may encompass?

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A mountain, volcano, valley, lake forest, etc.

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The tales of indigenous religions origins are usually recited through ______

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Ritual and dance

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11
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Who is the “ruler” for most indigenous religions?

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A High God

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12
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Many indigenous religions make little distinction between _________ and an ____________

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God
Ancestor

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13
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Ancestors are thought to live in an afterlife that resembles?

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Earth

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14
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The way to appeal angry ancestors is through?

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Ritual and sometimes sacrifice

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15
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Life-Cycle ceremony examples?

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  1. Birth of a child
  2. Entry into adulthood
  3. First menstrual period (menarche)
  4. Vision quest
  5. Marriage
  6. Death
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What do rites of passage mark?

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An important life event

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17
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What is a taboo?

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A rule that forbids specific behavior with regard to certain objects, people, animals, days, or phases of life

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Examples of taboos

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Blood of a menstruating woman is dangerous

Death/spirit of the dead person seeking revenge on the living

Social rank

Food sources

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Libation

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The act of pouring a liquid on the ground as an offering to a god

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20
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Who practiced human sacrifice?

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Aztecs, hawaiian religion, New Guinea

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21
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Shaman

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An intermediary between the visible, ordinary world, and spirit world

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Sympathetic magic

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An attempt to influence the outcome of an event through an action that has the same outcome to the desired result (ex. throwing water to make it rain)

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23
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Divination

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A foretelling of the future or look into the past

24
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Spirits may be reached in _______ or ________

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Dreams

Trances

25
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True/false

Becoming a shaman does not involve having one or more encounters with the spirit realm in the form of a psychological death and rebirth

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False. It does.

26
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Do native artists see their work as “art”?

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No, they view it as functional objects to be used in particular settings and special ways

27
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When masked, the dancer is thought to ____________

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Become the spirit and can utilize the spirit’s powers

28
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Totem

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An animal that is considered to be related by blood to a family or clan and is its guardian or symbol

29
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Totem animals may be memorials to_________

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Ancestors

30
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What are common symbols that appear in myths and dreams?

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A mountain located at the centre of the universe, the sun and moon, fire, rain, lightning, a bird or wings, death’s head and skeleton, a cross, and a circle

31
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What are the four principal threats to indigenous religions?

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  1. Loss of natural environments
  2. Loss of traditional languages
  3. Spread of popular culture
  4. Conversions to other religions
32
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Ancient religious ways are often referred to as traditional, aboriginal, indigenous, tribal, _______, primal, native, oral, and basic

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Non-literate

33
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Indigenous religions exist generally within _______ cultures, in which every object and act may have religious meaning

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Holistic

34
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Sacred time is “the time of ________”.

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Eternity

35
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Everyday religous activity and practice are significant because their primary purpose is to place individuals in “____________” with gods, ancestors, other human beings, and nature

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Relationships

36
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According to the dreatime chart, ceremonies include:
Dancing
Singing
Story telling
All of the above

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All of the above

37
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The Dreaming is

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The continuation of Dreamtime in the spiritual lives of aboriginal people today

38
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In Australian aboriginal Traditions, humans are

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Descendants of the Dreamtime ancestors

39
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What was created in the Dreamtime?

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Everything

40
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According to Australian aboriginal traditions, land

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has spiritual value

41
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According to the Dreamtime chart, sacred laws

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Cannot change

42
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The Dreamtime is

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The Aboriginal understanding of the world, of it’s creation, and it’s great stories

43
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In Australia, an Aboriginal person is defined as a person who

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Is a descendant of an Indigenous inhabitant of Australia

Identifies as an Aboriginal

Is recognized as Aboriginal by members of the community in which she or he lives

44
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According to the Dreamtime chart, humans have the capacity to

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adapt and change

45
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What happened to the ancestors after they created the earth during the Dreamtime?

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They went to sleep

46
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What are the three worlds in Dreamtime?

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Human, physical and sacred

47
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In Canada, the category of First Nations

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Has no legal status

48
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Indigenous wood carvings can manifest religious inspiration. One of these, the totem pole, is found in

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The Pacific Northwest

49
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“Wakan” means

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Holy/mysterious

50
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Initially, religion scholars

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Ignored oral traditions

51
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One way that aboriginal people are keeping their culture alive in Canada include

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Teaching cultural languages in schools

52
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In Canada, one indicator of Metis heritage is a sash

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True

53
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In many African Traditional Religions, ancestors are to be feared because they always cause trouble

True/False

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False

54
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Haitian Vodou is thought to have roots in ________ religion

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Yoruba

55
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The term ____________ refers to voluntary, repetitious and stylized symbolic bodily actions.

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Ritual

56
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What are the functions of ritual?

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To communicate within and outside of a group

To affirm community connections and beliefs

To remember the past

To identify one’s role in the community

57
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Life cycles can be separated into these 4 categories:

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  1. Birth/childhood
  2. Adolescence/Adulthood
  3. Old age
  4. Death
58
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Which life cycle is likely the most important

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Death
To help the person’s soul move on

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