Study Guide For Exam #1

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70 CE

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Question 1

Tribal traditions

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550 different tribes. Each have a distinguishing character and history, yet there are common traits. Like attachment to the specific landscape of their home.

Question 2

1st wave of Jewish immigration

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1654 Jews came to New York from Brazil because Portugal expelled them. Sephardic Jews, from Spain because of Spanish Inquisition, from Iberian peninsula and from the Middle East. They established themselves along the east coast. Make up 2.5% of pop (6 million Jews)

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2nd wave of Jewish immigration

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1820 Ashkenazic Jews of German origin
200,000 to 400,000 of them came
Brought German customs and practices, more reformed

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Ashkenazim (Ashkenazic)

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Jews of German origin. Came in the second immigration.

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German Jewry

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Territorial (Catherine Albanese’s definition of religion)

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Sacred space
Ex) Jerusalem is important for Judaism and Christianity because of the Church of the Holy Seplechre. For Muslims, in Saudi Arabia, Mecca (the Ka’ba), also in Islam the Dome of the Holy Rock. The Ganges River in India for Hinduism (river from earth to heaven). Vatican City, Rome for Catholics, Salt Lake City, Utah for Mormons and Deer Park, India for Buddisium.

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Lutheran reforms

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Bodily (Catherine Albanese’s def of religion)

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Hinduism-henna tattoos, red dot on women’s forehead to show marriage
Judaism-men get circumsized 8 days after birth, also wear kippah(cap), women cover hair with wigs

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Temporal (Catherine Albanese’s def of religion)

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The passage of time

Ex) baptism, bar mitzvah, first communion, fasting, marriage, death, quinceañera

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Rituals (Catherine Albanese’s def of religion)

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Going to church and making offerings

In Hinduism, make puya

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Myths (origin stories) (Catherine Albanese’s def of religion)

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Sacred stories.
For example like how Jesus was born and crucified and the Adam and Eve story of creation. Greek mythology- creation
Jesus virgin birth like Greek myth of Zeus birth

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Traditions (Catherine Albanese’s def of religions)

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=identity

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Ordinary religions

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Associated with culture and how to live with boundaries. Origins of the rituals and actions of everyday life. Religion of the community: reinforces social roles and brings community together.

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Extraordinary religions

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Helps people transcend their everyday culture, and connect with one’s deity or deities. It is outside culture, because between individual and deity. Special language: provides access to world beyond. (Speaking in tongues.

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Creed (four C’s)

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Explanations about the meaning of human life

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Codes (four C’s)

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Rules that govern everyday behavior.

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Cultus (four C’s)

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Rituals that act out the ideas expressed in creeds and codes

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Communities (four C’s)

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Groups of people bound together by creed, codes, and cultus.

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Oneness of religion

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Ruling religion

“Elite”-Protestants have greatly affected American culture and religions that are practiced in America.

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Oral traditions

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Distinguishes Native American religion from other religious traditions, and is composed of stories, myths, and rituals passed on from elder to the next generation. Thus each member of the tribe plays a vital role in ensuring its existence, the risk though is that something could be forgotten, changed or misinterpretated.

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Cosmogonic myths

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Each tribe has their own, creation myth that define tribal identity and a person’s relationship to the land, cosmos, and community.

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Zuni myth and itiwana

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In New Mexico, men emerged from lower world through the itiwana .

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Seneca myth

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In upstate. New York, the falling woman from the sky and landed on turtle’ back.

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Hopi myths and sipapuni

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In Arizona, the caves in the ground came up to Arizona.

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Navajos and mountains

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Four corners of the world; Arizona, Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico.

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Sweat lodges

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To give religious instruction

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Sand paintings

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Used to pass tradition and heal people. All are made to teach and continue the creation process begun by the gods and ancestors