Chapter 12

Question 1

Animism

Answer 1

The belief that inanimate objects such as trees rocks cliffs hills and rivers are animated by spiritual forces or being

Question 2

Worldview

Answer 2

General approach to or set of shared unquestioned assumptions about the world and how it works

Question 3

Interpretive approach

Answer 3

A kind of analysis that interpretation the underlying symbolic and cultural interconnections within a society

Question 4

Quran

Answer 4

The main body of scripture in Islam consisting of verses of Classical Arabic poetry understood to be revealed to the prophet Muhammad by Allah often in dreams or in the midst of other activities

Question 5

Totemism

Answer 5

A system of thought that Associates particular social groups with specific animal of plant species called totem as an emblem

Question 6

Shamans

Answer 6

A religious leader who communicates god needs of the living with the spirit world usually through some form of ritual trance or other altercation state of consciousness

Question 7

Trance

Answer 7

A semiconscious state typically brought in by hypnosis ritual drumming and singing or hallucinogenic drugs

Question 8

Spirit familiar

Answer 8

A spirit that has developed a close bond with a shaman

Question 9

Speaking in tongues

Answer 9

The phenomenon of speaking in an apparently unknown language often in an energetic and fast paced way

Question 10

Polytheism

Answer 10

Belief of many gods

Question 11

World religions

Answer 11

Religions that claim to be universally significant to all people

Question 12

Rite of passage

Answer 12

Any life cycle rite that marks a persons groups transition from one social state to another

Question 13

Secular worldview

Answer 13

A worldview that doesn’t accept the supernatural as influencing current people’s lives

Question 14

Fundamentalists

Answer 14

People belonging to conservative religious movements that advocate a return to fundamental or traditional practices