quiz 2

Question 1

Geertz:

Answer 1

American anthropologist – The interpretation of Cultures. What is the importance of understanding the significance and intentions of religious behaviors?

Question 2

World view

Answer 2

• he way a person or group sees and understands the world; a collection of concepts and values (which are generally assumed) that a person or group employs in any effort to account for their experience and expectations in life.

Question 3

Geertz’ Definition

Answer 3

a system of symbols which acts to establish powerful, pervasive, and long lasting moods and motivations in people by formulating conceptions of a general order of existence and clothing these conceptions with such an aura of factuality that the moods and motivations seem uniquely realistic

Question 4

Ethos

Answer 4

Authority. An inclination to feel and behave in the world in accordance with the worldview

Question 5

Pathos

Answer 5

emotion

Question 6

Human Problem

Answer 6

WHAT THE WORLDS RELIGIONS SHARE IS NOT SO MUCH AN END AS A BEGINNING. How can evil and suffering be endured?

Question 7

henotheism

Answer 7

one high god among many

Question 8

pantheism

Answer 8

god is manifest in everything

Question 9

paneantheism

Answer 9

god is manifest in everything but this does not exhaust deity

Question 10

Anthropomorphism

Answer 10

Attribution of human motivation, characteristics, or behavior to inanimate objects, animals, or natural phenomena.

Question 11

Transcendence

Answer 11

Being above and independent of the material universe

Question 12

Immanence

Answer 12

god is not inaccessible, but the animating power of the world

Question 12

Theodicy

Answer 12

To justify god and understand evil.

Question 13

Omniscient

Answer 13

All knowing

Question 14

Omnipotent

Answer 14

All powerful

Question 15

Omnibenevolent

Answer 15

All good

Question 16

Moksha

Answer 16

Liberation . Release from finitude

Question 17

Yoga

Answer 17

To yoke or bend. Evoking commitment and discipline.

Question 18

Bhakti yoga

Answer 18

Devotion. Practice of repention of divine names ( taste the sugar)

Question 19

Jnana

Answer 19

Knowledge. Study of reflection lead to distinction of selves( become the sugar)

Question 20

Atman

Answer 20

Innermost self/principle. One with universe/reality/deity

Question 21

Trinity (Brahman)

Answer 21

Creator

Question 22

Trinity ( shiva)

Answer 22

Destroyer

Question 23

Trinity (Vishnu)

Answer 23

Sustainer

Question 24

Veda

Answer 24

Oldest

Question 25

Upanishads

Answer 25

Commentaries on Vedas

Question 26

Bhagaud-Gita

Answer 26

Story of Krishna

Question 27

Samsara

Answer 27

Cycle of life

Question 28

Freud

Answer 28

Infantile and human sexuality

Question 29

ID

Answer 29

Desires, appetites. Unconscious desires

Question 30

EGO

Answer 30

Conscious identity. The "I"

Question 31

Superego

Answer 31

The I above. Social rules and expectations

Question 32

Neurosis

Answer 32

Crazy counters

Question 33

Wish fulfillment

Answer 33

We wish for the loving relationship with an ideal parent. God we wish for a world without conflict and regret. Heaven

Question 34

Oedipus complex

Answer 34

Children's sexual drives mean attachment to one parent and competition.