Term 1

Question 1

What is an anthropological subset

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things such as religion, politics, kinship, gender, etc

Question 2

religion deals with…

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beliefs, worldview, meaning of life, ethics, lifestyle

Question 3

Who said religion is “something eminently social”?

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Emile Durkheim

Question 4

What is the anthropological definition of relion?

Answer 4

belief in supernatural power, symbolic expression of feelings and rituals performed in order to influence the non-human realm (crapo 1993)

Question 5

Who came up with universal obsessional neurosis?

Answer 5

Sigmund Freud?

Question 6

What is universal obsessional neurosis?

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cosmic projection. replaying of our love/fear relationships with our parents

Question 7

Who believed religion results from the economic system?

Answer 7

Karl Marx

Question 8

Karl Marx is the narrative of the…

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ruling elite and an unjust social system, justifying oppression

Question 9

what is the connection between religion and the public realm?

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determines the social order

Question 10

Western Christendom was the

Answer 10

Roman Catholic Church

Question 11

What was the centre of religious and social life

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the roman catholic church

Question 12

Centrality, leadership,dominance in land ownership and the clergy are all what the …. had to function

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Roman Catholic Church

Question 13

What was the clergy

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the educated class, both working for the kings and working as intermediaries between the landed and the masses

Question 14

What problems does the clergy create

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power struggles between spiritual and temporal leaders. The struggle between popes and kings

Question 15

When did the modern age begin?

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1500’s

Question 16

Renaissance Humanism brought upon 4 progresses

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beginning of question, growth of latin greek philosophy and science, criticism of medieval models of authority and morality and new styles of cultural production through art and literature

Question 17

The protestant reformation started with an act of protest through…

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martin luther’s 95 thesis and nailed them to the door

Question 18

2 main ways Martin Luther changed the course of history

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upset a church that had ruled for a thousand years and set in motion a sequence of revolution, war and conflict that would reshape wester civilization and bring on the modern era

Question 19

Luther’s story is an account of:

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the birth of the modern age, the collapse of medieval feudalism and the beginning of the ideals of freedom and liberty that are at the core of the 21 century

Question 20

2 ways Luther attacked churches practice of selling indulgences in the famous 95 thesis

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a criticism of the popes purpose in raising the money and a straightforward concern for his flock

Question 21

Thomas More wrote a book called

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Utopia - a perfect place, yet no place

Question 22

Thomas More quesitons the

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status quo, speaking of a work of equality and balanced religion

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Other powerful forces acting in europe at the time

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The printing press and the discovery of the new world

Question 24

Who is vespucci?

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he explored the coast of south america and his letters and notes were immediately printed

Question 25

Two genres of the new world books

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Happy utopian and sensational/unahppy

Question 26

3 occurrences of secularism in the late 17th century include

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the enlightenment/the age of reason, reason and individualism will overtake tradition and faith and the questioning of the power of religion over people

Question 27

What is cognate ergo sum? Who said this?

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I think, therefore I am, René Descartes

Question 28

What clearly articulates freedoms, follows the pathways of logic, tests conclusions and defends the natural freedom of all?

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rationalism

Question 29

Rationalism ushers in the age of the..... based upon.....

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public sphere based upon egalitarianism and concern for the common good

Question 30

Who believes that all mankind being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions?

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John Locke

Question 31

What does Immanuel Kant believe?

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there is nothing higher than reason

Question 32

The clergy competes with

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other public authorities

Question 33

Secularism can oddly be seen as purifying the religious sphere because...

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it gets rid of earthly matters and removes the corrupting forces of institutional powers interfering with spiritual matters

Question 34

What is another word for multi faith and coexistence?

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abstract faith

Question 35

What is abstract faith for action?

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secular not at odds with religion, more about interfaith dialogue, for real change there needs more than the blessing of a higher power and a science that does not corrupt inner spiritual values

Question 36

José Casonoca provides these three useful connotations of secular

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Decline of religious beliefs and practices, privatization of religion and differentiation of the secular spheres

Question 37

Secularity could be said to be a trademark to ......

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capitalism

Question 38

Capitalism and secularism leaves religious organizations to....

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rejection or adaptation

Question 39

Why does the concept of official rejection of secularity not make sense?

Answer 39

people become rebellious and yet still participate in the economy

Question 40

A highly secularized world necessarily implies survival by ..... of religious groups

Answer 40

adaptation

Question 41

A decline of religion can be shown in

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official state policies against head scarves, gay rights, abortion, tackling poverty

Question 42

What is a multi faith organization

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church groups working and cooperating together

Question 43

.... did have secularizing effects, but its convoked serious counter-secularizing processes

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modernization

Question 44

traditionalist/orthodoc/conservative religiosity is on the rise through

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islamic fundamentalism and christian fundamentalism

Question 45

Fundamentalism is

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counter secularism

Question 46

what is the zeitgeist

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the defining mood of a particular period

Question 47

3 things that make up the concept of certainty

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modernity calls all things into question eliminating certain truth, uncertainty is hard to bear, people support movements that'll promise certainty

Question 48

2 distinctions between official and individual secularism

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loss of religious influence in public sphere as well as old and new relies practices continue to be powerful elements in people's lives

Question 49

2 exceptions in the fundamental general trend

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western europe and western academic culture

Question 50

Why is there continued resilience of religion in a modern, rational world?

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we inhabit a world system that is disempowering and exploitative for the masses, political and economic marginality abound and religion is a powerful social institution for empowering and meaning in our unjust world