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19 Cards in this Set
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animism |
the belief that inanimate objects such as trees rocks cliffs hills and rivers were animated by spiritual forces or beings |
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rituals |
stylized performances involving symbols that are associated with social political and religious activities |
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world view |
conceptualizations of the world offer a set of unquestioned assumptions about the world and how it works |
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interpretive approach |
a style of analysis that looks at the underlying symbolic and cultural interconnections with a society |
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religion |
symbolic system that is socially enacted through rituals and other aspects of social life |
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holy struggle |
followers of Osama bin Laden set up a network to wage a holy struggle (jihad in arabic) against those perceived as oppressing muslims |
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totemism |
american indian soicieties observed people that were identified with particular animals often claiming to be descended from these animals. these symbols indicated their clans, lineages, tribes or other social groups |
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shamans |
Russia and central europe encountered tribes in siberia whose religious rituals consisted of spiritual leaders (shamans) who communicate the needs of the living with the spirit world |
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trance |
a sesmi conscious state typically brought on by hypnosis, ritual drumming and singing, or hallucinogenic drugs |
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spirt familiar |
a spirit that has developed a close bond with the shaman |
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speaking in tongues |
the phenomenon of speaking in an apparently unknown language often in an energetic and fast paced way |
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monotheism |
the belief in only one god |
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world religions |
religions that claim to be universally significant to all people |
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magic |
an explanatory system of causation that does not follow naturalistic explanations |
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sympathetic magic |
any magical rite that relied on supernatural powers to produces its outcome without working through a specific supernatural being such as a spirit |
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rite of passage |
a life cycle ritual that marks a person's transition from one social state to another |
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secular worldview |
a worldview that does not accept the supernatural as influencing current people's lives |
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fundamentalist |
people belonging to conservative religious movements that advocate a return to fundamental or traditional principles |
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fundamentalism |
extremely literal interpretation of scripture particularly prophetic books in the bible |
