Definitions-1

Question 1

Any given culture must be evaluated in terms of its own belief system

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Cultural relativity

Question 2

Belief that one’s own culture is superior in every way to all others, looking at a set of beliefs through your cultural lenses

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Ethnocentrism

Question 3

Sacred prohibition put upon certain people/things/acts that makes them untouchable/unmentionable

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Taboo

Question 4

Strychnine, lye and water, true faithful believe and drink

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Salvation cocktail

Question 5

Concepts of general order of existence

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Cosmology

Question 6

Impersonal supernatural force

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Mana

Question 7

Secular or sacred formal, solemn act, observance or procedure in accordance w/prescribed rules or customs

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Ritual

Question 8

Process of contacting the supernatural to answer a question

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Divination

Question 9

Trance state where malevolent or curative spirits enter a person’s body

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Possession

Question 10

Social occasions marking transition of group members from one life stage to the next

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Rites of passage

Question 11

Ritual leaders oriented to some sort of personalized supernatural being, often come from designated families, skills learned through intensive study, usually apart from the community

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Priest/ess

Question 12

Personal call, authority founded on revelations and personal charisma, religion a force for dynamic social change

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Prophet

Question 13

Religious specialist and healer w/power derived directly from supernatural sources, may have call to faith or certain physical characteristics

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Shaman

Question 14

Integrated total of learned behavior that is characteristic of members of a society, society’s shared and socially transmitted ideas, values, perceptions

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Culture

Question 15

Group of people sharing a territory, language, and culture, act together for collective survival and well being

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Society

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Approach that emphasizes the study of cultural and bio ecological system in its entirety

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Holistic

Question 17

Ritual practice believed to compel the supernatural to act in a desired way

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Magic

Question 18

Organized system of ideas about spiritual reality/supernatural along with associated beliefs and ceremonial practices that people use to explain/influence the universe

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Religion

Question 19

Not concerned with religion, ordinary

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Profane

Question 20

Venerated objects and actions considered holy and entitled to reverence

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Sacred

Question 21

Sacred narrative that explains the fundamentals of human existence

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Myth

Question 22

Merging of two or more belief systems where the product is something new

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Syncretism

Question 23

Symbol with many meanings

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Multivocal symbol

Question 24

Between two stages of being, middle stage of ritual process

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Liminal