Ch 6 & 7.1

Question 1

What is Teleogy?

Answer 1

Study of dealing with ends or causes

Question 2

What is the modernity of Teleogy?

Answer 2

Redefined as : The idea of progressing

Movement from
- nature to civilization
- emotion to reason
- community to individualism
- cyclical to linear

Question 3

What is the Christian teleology?

Answer 3

The great chain of being

Question 4

What is the Karmic teleology?

Answer 4

how ones’ consciousness continues to turn in a cycle (aka the karmic wheel)

Question 5

Define Karma

Answer 5

action or doing

Question 6

What are the aspects of the Karmic wheel

Answer 6

• Intention
• Manifestation
• Transmission
• Retribution
• Continuation

Question 7

What does Intention mean?

Answer 7

act with intention

Question 8

What does Manifestation mean?

Answer 8

intention manifests in the world

Question 9

What does Transmission mean?

Answer 9

communicate thoughts/action

Question 10

What does Retribution mean?

Answer 10

consequences of our karma (aka action)

Question 11

What does Continuation mean?

Answer 11

without intervention

Question 12

What is Racialized consciousness?

Answer 12

Race is entangled with how we view society, religion, & progress

Question 13

What is hybridity?

Answer 13

The process of blending elements from different religious traditions to create new religious systems of belief and practice

Question 14

What is Conjure?

Answer 14

magical tradition in which spiritual power is
invoked for various purpose

Question 15

What is Rootwork?

Answer 15

a conjure practice of using herbs

Question 16

What is voodoo?

Answer 16

A religion practiced in parts of the caribbean

It combines elements of roman catholic ritual with traditional west africa ‘magical’ and religious rites

Question 17

What is hoodoo?

Answer 17

(aka root work)

Any system of spiritual practice established among enslaved west African communities

Question 18

What are the functions of conjure?

Answer 18

• Meditation
• Connect with ancestors
• Social responsibility
• Establish Authorities
• Control of one own life
• Sense of empowerment
• Strategies against resistance against oppression

Question 19

What is the function of rituals?

Answer 19

Building an identity and forming a social group

Question 20

What is an example of religious hybridity? How so?

Answer 20

Voodoo is an example of religious hybridity because it combines catholic rituals with traditional west African rites

Question 21

Define ritual

Answer 21

A means of re-telling and re-living a myth

Question 22

Define Cosmology

Answer 22

The science or theory of the universe as an ordered whole

Question 23

Define Native American cosmology

Answer 23

Universe as a life system in which everything
had its part

Question 24

Native American Belief on death

Answer 24

as “a natural cosmic process” and continuation of life

souls remain in various places where they died

Question 25

Native American values are..

Answer 25

Acceptance of death; humans as part of natural world; returning the body to the earth

Question 26

Native American Practices are...

Answer 26

death songs; burial mounds; honoring lands of ancestors

Question 27

What is the Hindu term for: "the end of body”

Answer 27

Dehanta

Question 28

What was the explanation for Dehanta

Answer 28

“the end of body” but not the end of life

Question 29

What is the Hindu Beliefs about death:

Answer 29

distinction between body/soul; flow of life, death, rebirth, and eventual liberation

Question 30

What is the Hindu Values about death:

Answer 30

detachment; accepting death

Question 31

What is the Hindu Practices about death:

Answer 31

- open casket; - cremation (fire) - dispersal in river or ocean (water)

Question 32

What is the Christian Beliefs about death:

Answer 32

Incarnation of God in Jesus; resurrection of the body (Christian); eternal life; immortality of the soul (Greek?)

Question 33

What is the Christian Values about death:

Answer 33

personal responsibility; acknowledging sins/wrongdoings; joining with Christ; fear of death(?)

Question 34

What is the Christian Practices about death:

Answer 34

prayers, scripture readings, burials in caskets in cemeteries