Oxtoby

Question 1

Explanations for existence of religion

Answer 1

Fear of death to hope of afterlife;
Uncertainty surrounding natural events to control over nature ; emerges from sense of good and bad owners from dreams and sacred places

Question 2

Ritual

Answer 2

Series of actions
Occur in prescribed order
May include words objects movements gestures
Never neutral
Empowering
Not static
Repetitive

Question 3

Day of the Dead

Answer 3

Mexican festival honouring the dead

Question 4

Outsiders are

Answer 4

Outsiders to our religion. We are outsiders to theirs

Question 5

Naga

Answer 5

Mythical cobra living in underworld - associated with water and fertility in Indian religions

Question 6

Two feminist theoretical approaches

Answer 6

Seek to make change from inside a religion

Those that do not represent a particular religion but focus on status of religion in general

Question 7

Anthropology

Answer 7

Variety of approaches similar to religion - helps to obtain information about cultures where there is no written history

Question 8

Highest level

Answer 8

Heavens above clouds and stars home of
Highest deity Sky Father Creater King of
Heaven

Question 9

Stonehedge

Answer 9

Ancient rock structure thought to have been constructed for ritual purposes

Question 10

Religion

Answer 10

3 interactions with culturally postulated superhuman beings and
4 complex systems of beliefs and practices per group

Question 11

Kinds of insiders

Answer 11

Many - christians catholic protestant orthodox

Question 12

Religion

Answer 12

1 Organizational category that scholars attempt to appreciate the ways people create meaning in their lives

Question 13

Sociology

Answer 13

Study of institutions - religious and communities - how does religion meet specific needs

Question 14

Halloween

Answer 14

Popular secular holiday originally Eve of all saints day

Question 15

All saints day

Answer 15

Christian festival honouring departed saints

Question 16

Shaman

Answer 16

Type of priest - widespread among hunter gatherer societies. Communicates with spirits on behalf of people

Question 17

Death and burial rites are important because

Answer 17

Deceased ancestors can play a role in guiding living members of their families;
Hope for rebirth into a different realm
Grave goods - possessions for afterlife

Question 18

Philosophy

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Study of rational principles

Question 19

Upanishads

Answer 19

Hindu religious texts composed 1500 1600

BC

Question 20

Obon

Answer 20

Japanese festival honouring ancestors

Question 21

Psychology

Answer 21

Provides analytic tools to study mental and emotional needs that religion provides its practitioners

Question 22

Nine major developments of religious beliefs

Answer 22

Shamanism
Connecting to the cosmos
temple Religion
Prophetic religion
The energy God - China India Greek
Purity and Monasticism
Mystery Religion
God on Earth
Scriptural Religion

Question 23

Insiders are

Answer 23

Insiders to our own religion

Question 24

Religion

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2 Inseparable from historical cultural and social contexts in which it is embedded an institution consisting of culturally patterned

Question 25

Three worlds concept

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The sky the earth the underworld

Question 26

Very early on the term religion was synonymous with

Answer 26

Christianity

Question 27

Orthopraxy

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Focus on right doing; ie Judaism

Question 28

History

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Systematic recording and analysis of events and significant causal patterns in humanity’s past

Question 29

History provides

Answer 29

Understanding of origins and developments of religious practice
Context to understand texts
Explain points of contact between various religions

Question 30

Approaches to study of religion

Answer 30

History
Psychology
Philosophy
Sociology
Anthropology

Question 31

Re women scholars can say with certainties that

Answer 31

There is archeological evidence of female figurines and that these are understood to be symbolic of goddess worship