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quiz 2 Flashcards

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Geertz:

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American anthropologist – The interpretation of Cultures. What is the importance of understanding the significance and intentions of religious behaviors?

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World view

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  • he way a person or group sees and understands the world; a collection of concepts and values (which are generally assumed) that a person or group employs in any effort to account for their experience and expectations in life.
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Geertz’ Definition

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a system of symbols which acts to establish powerful, pervasive, and long lasting moods and motivations in people by formulating conceptions of a general order of existence and clothing these conceptions with such an aura of factuality that the moods and motivations seem uniquely realistic

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Ethos

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Authority. An inclination to feel and behave in the world in accordance with the worldview

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Pathos

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emotion

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Human Problem

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WHAT THE WORLDS RELIGIONS SHARE IS NOT SO MUCH AN END AS A BEGINNING. How can evil and suffering be endured?

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henotheism

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one high god among many

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pantheism

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god is manifest in everything

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paneantheism

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god is manifest in everything but this does not exhaust deity

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Anthropomorphism

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Attribution of human motivation, characteristics, or behavior to inanimate objects, animals, or natural phenomena.

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Transcendence

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Being above and independent of the material universe

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Immanence

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god is not inaccessible, but the animating power of the world

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Theodicy

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To justify god and understand evil.

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Omniscient

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All knowing

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Omnipotent

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All powerful

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Omnibenevolent

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All good

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Moksha

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Liberation . Release from finitude

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Yoga

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To yoke or bend. Evoking commitment and discipline.

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Bhakti yoga

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Devotion. Practice of repention of divine names ( taste the sugar)

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Jnana

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Knowledge. Study of reflection lead to distinction of selves( become the sugar)

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Atman

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Innermost self/principle. One with universe/reality/deity

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Trinity (Brahman)

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Creator

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Trinity ( shiva)

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Destroyer

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Trinity (Vishnu)

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Sustainer

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Veda

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Oldest

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Upanishads

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Commentaries on Vedas

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Bhagaud-Gita

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Story of Krishna

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Samsara

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Cycle of life

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Freud

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Infantile and human sexuality

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ID

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Desires, appetites. Unconscious desires

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EGO

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Conscious identity. The “I”

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Superego

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The I above. Social rules and expectations

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Neurosis

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Crazy counters

33
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Wish fulfillment

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We wish for the loving relationship with an ideal parent. God we wish for a world without conflict and regret. Heaven

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Oedipus complex

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Children’s sexual drives mean attachment to one parent and competition.

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