Religion and Ritual

Question 1

Benefits of Religion/Ritual

Answer 1

1. Sense of order
2. Helps us understand inexplicable events
3. Helps to relieve fear or anxiety about unknown/ things we can’t control
4. Helps ease stress during transitions birth marriage death moving starting new job divorce
5. Provides us with Moral Codes
6. Manipulate the Divine
7. Sense of Ecstatic feeling, emotional relies
8. Producing social stability
9. Common Purpose: Uniting people/ common sense of purpose
10. Reinforces Group Identity

Question 2

Types of Religious Belief

Answer 2

1) Animalism
2) Animism
3) Ancestral Spirit Worship
4) Polytheism
5) Monotheism
6) Agnosticism and Atheism
7) Religious Nones

Question 3

Animalism

Answer 3

a belief in a supernatural power that is not a being

eg. the force in Star Wars

Question 4

Animism

Answer 4

natural objects are animated in some way by spirit beings

Question 5

Ancestral Spirit Worship

Answer 5

When people die, their spirits impact others
“ghost-like”
ancestor’s living among us

Question 6

Polytheism

Answer 6

belief in multiple gods, more than one

example Hinduism

Question 7

Monotheism

Answer 7

Belief in one supreme god

there are other gods, but only one supreme

Question 8

Agnosticism

Answer 8

people say there is a supernatural being, but don’t know what the supernatural being is

Question 9

Atheism

Answer 9

rejection of god(s) or anything supernatural

Question 10

Religious Nones

Answer 10

not defining how they fit
non-religious
might incorporate some but don’t affiliate with any particular group

Question 11

Types of Rituals

Answer 11

1) Rites of Intensification
2) Rites of Affliction
3) Rites of Passage

Question 12

What can be associated with rituals?

Answer 12

props, scripts, actions

can be associated with a sacred space

Question 13

Alison Spino

Answer 13

Najar=Evil Eye
2000 study in UK/Africa
-sense of something elaborate
-negative engeries, feelings, thoughts
-unintentional harm (magic)