Religion Flashcards

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What is Religion?

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It is people’s relationship with the supernatural.

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What is Supernatural?

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It is believed to exist but cannot be known by normal sensual means.

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What are types of religion?

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Animatism, animism, theism

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What is Animatism?

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It is the beliefs in impersonal force. We find it in some chiefdom societies.

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What is Mana?

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It is the force in animatism. The chief has more mana than regular people.

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What is Tabu?

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It is a prohibition with an immediate impersonal supernatural sanction.
Eg: Luck in the US

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What is Animism?

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It is the beliefs in spirits.
Everything has a spirit and is in charge of itself.
Find it in egalitarian societies.

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What is Theism?

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It is the beliefs in God(s).

Find it in stratified societies.

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What is God?

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A god is a spirit that creates or controls some aspects of the world. Like a spirit with a specific job.

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What is World-view?

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It is one’s expectation of how the world works emphasizing perception and expectation.

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What is Ideology?

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It is one’s expectation of how the world works emphasizing the guiding principles (how things should work)

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What is Cosmology?

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It is one’s expectation of how the world works emphasizing the universe and everything in it

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Who is Shaman?

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It is a person who does spiritual work on behalf of the community through altered state of consciousness.
It is associated with animism.

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What are the works of shaman?

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  • curing: healing ordinary sickness

- recovery: is recovering lost souls.

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What is soul-lost?

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It is the belief that one’s soul is outside one’s body.

The symptoms are similar to what we call depression.

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What is consciousness?

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It is one’s awareness of oneself and one’s surroundings.

Cultures usually don’t have names for the normal state of consciousness.

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What is the altered state of consciousness?

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It is not a normal type of consciousness.

18
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What are the two main states of consciousness that shaman use?

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Spirit possession and Soul Flight

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What is Spirit possession?

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It is a spirit controls one’s body.

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What is Soul Flight?

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It is one’s spirit leaves one’s body with consciousness.

Eg: out of body experience

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What is Revitalization Movement?

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It is a conscious, organized attempt to create a better society.
Can be religious, political movements.
Characterized by dissatisfaction in society
Eg: Black Muslim

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What is Millenarian Movement?

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It is a revitalization movement that predicts an imminent end to the world as it is known

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What is Cargo Cult?

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It is a millenarian movement where the members expect to receive material goods.
South Pacific

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What is Messianic?

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Focusing on the coming of an individual who will usher in a utopian world.

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What is Syncretism?

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The merging of elements of two or more religious traditions to produce a new religion.

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What is Fundamentalism?

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A proclamation of reclaimed authority over a sacred tradition that is to be reinstated as an antidote for a society that is believed to have strayed from its culural moorings.