6-9 Key terms

Question 1

Worldview

Answer 1

a particular philosophy of life or conception of the world.

Question 2

rational belief

Answer 2

Religion creating commitment to group, and cultures from falling apart.

Question 3

The Placebo effect

Answer 3

a phenomenon in which some people experience a benefit after the administration of an inactive substance or sham treatment.

Question 4

Emile Durkheim (Who he was, what he did)

Answer 4

French sociologist in the 19th century. Studied the origins of religion through studying “primitive cultures”. Came up with the sacred/profane Dichotomy.

Question 5

Sacred /Profane Dichotomy

Answer 5

the sacred, meaning things we set apart as extraordinary, inspiring awe and reverence, and profane, those routine aspects of our day-to-day existence

Question 6

Emotional Transcendence

Answer 6

People moving emotionally in a religious ceromony, becoming apart of something larger than the everyday. How your supposed to feel while praying for instance.

Question 7

Etic/Emic

Answer 7

Etic - the perspective of the observer.

Emic - the perspective of the studied social group.

Question 8

Rational Belief

Answer 8

n/a

Question 9

Non rational belief

Answer 9

n/a

Question 10

Hopi snake ceremony

Answer 10

The Hopi was a native tribe that lived in New World America that were located in the four corners. Hopi Snake ceremony (Emic)/ Hopi rain dance(etic) is every couple of years they do it at the end of the summer and its a process of a couple of weeks.

Question 11

Shamans

Answer 11

The Hopi shamans are responsible for the link to the reality of every day and the reality of the shaman.

Question 12

Koyannisuatsi

Answer 12

Life out of balance

Question 13

Placebos

Answer 13

Not a real medicine that has no effect on your body.

Question 14

The Placebos effect

Answer 14

Psych people to think that the things we take to get better has no physical effect at all, but has a chemical change.

Question 15

Colma, California

Answer 15

“The City of the Dead”

Question 16

Mission deleres

Answer 16

A cemetery that was filled with bodies of priests and religious preachers.

Question 17

The presido

Answer 17

A cemetery that was once a US army base that are buried with soldiers that fought in wars.

Question 18

Anthropomorphism

Answer 18

Giving human characteristics to those who are not human.

Question 19

Animism

Answer 19

The sacred and the power of the sacred lies in nature (Pagan)

Question 20

Ancesstor worship

Answer 20

The dead are around us all the time, they have the power to help us or hurt us depending on how we treat them.

Question 21

Ghost/spirits

Answer 21

Lingering spirits from the dead that live in the same world as us.

Question 22

Mana

Answer 22

Power of the Sacred but have no intent.

Question 23

Ethnocentric

Answer 23

evaluating other peoples and cultures according to the standards of one’s own culture.

Question 24

Myths

Answer 24

the social values embedded within RELIGION

Question 25

Primeval Reality

Answer 25

that reality in which all values originate

Question 26

Flood myths

Answer 26

n/a

Question 27

Origon myths

Answer 27

n/a

Question 28

time before time

Answer 28

when neither time nor space exists only God (the Gods)exists

Question 29

singularity

Answer 29

16+ billion years ago there is no matter or space. Nothing but a point of energy

Question 30

time of creation/perfection

Answer 30

GOD create space, time, reality as we know it

Question 31

questzalcoatl

Answer 31

AZTECS

Question 32

aztecs

Answer 32

questzalcoatl

Question 33

father raven

Answer 33

inuits

Question 34

inuits

Answer 34

father raven

Question 35

jehovah

Answer 35

judeo/christianity

Question 36

judeo/christianity

Answer 36

jehovah

Question 37

allah

Answer 37

Islam

Question 38

Islam

Answer 38

allah

Question 39

The Brahma

Answer 39

Hinduism

Question 40

Hinduism

Answer 40

The Brahma

Question 41

Australian Aborigines

Answer 41

The rainbow serpent

Question 42

The rainbow serpent

Answer 42

Australian Aborigines

Question 43

the big bang

Answer 43

Science

Question 44

the golden age

Answer 44

Classical Greeks

Question 45

the garden of eden

Answer 45

Christianity

Question 46

the dreaming

Answer 46

Australian Aborigines

Question 47

the time of corruption/the end of time

Answer 47

Time of corruption: God leaves us and we live in a world conflict, disease, struggle and calamity (Covid19) and must find a way to return to the time of perfection. End of time: END OF THE PROFANE -FOREVER

Question 48

cyclic time

Answer 48

a) time begins b) reality goes through the stage of corruption c) time ends d) time begins again Creating an infinite loop of time.

Question 49

the apocalypse

Answer 49

the time of great disruption which would be the warning that end time was approaching.

Question 50

the millennium

Answer 50

God would judge humanity. Punish the wicked for eternity and reward the virtuous with everlasting life in heaven (perfection) AND END TIME.

Question 51

Contemporary cultures

Answer 51

Sharp division between the worlds of the Sacred and Profane, Emphasis on rational-economic.

Question 52

Traditional Cultures

Answer 52

Blend the sacred and profane emphasis the non-rational-cultural (Religious Perspectives on Anthropology)

Question 53

Ceremony

Answer 53

PUBLIC RITUALISTIC ACTIVITIES

Question 54

Rituals

Answer 54

THE PURPOSE OF RITUALS IS TO VALIDATE THE CEREMONY

Question 55

Rites of Intensification

Answer 55

those rituals or symbols which make the ceremony “work” the right food at Thanksgiving or dressing in costumes on Halloween