Unit 1

Question 1

A person who believes that no God or anything of material phenomena is known or can be known to existence.

Answer 1

Agnostic

Question 2

A person who disbelieves or lacks belief in the existence of a God or Gods.

Answer 2

Atheist

Question 3

A statement of the beliefs or aims that guide someone’s actions.

Answer 3

Credo

Question 4

Moral principles that govern a person or groups behaviour.

Answer 4

Ethics

Question 5

The universal urge to believe in something beyond ourselves.

Answer 5

Religious Impulse

Question 6

An attitude or policy regarding the diversity of religious belief systems co-existing in society.

Answer 6

Religious pluralism

Question 7

A religious or solemn ceremony consisting of a series of actions performed according to a prescribed order.

Answer 7

Ritual

Question 8

Inhabiting in a land from earliest times or from before the arrival of colonists; indigenous, native.

Answer 8

Aboriginal

Question 9

The attribution of a soul to plants, inanimate objects and natural phenomena.

Answer 9

Animism

Question 10

The process by which a group of people acquire the social and cultural characteristics of another group.

Answer 10

Assimilation

Question 11

Man or woman recognized as being wise and full of knowledge.

Answer 11

Elder

Question 12

Member of a nation selected to maintain the traditional ceremonies and rituals.

Answer 12

Faithkeeper

Question 13

The origin, the beginnings, the formation of something.

Answer 13

Genesis

Question 14

Iroquois home, cigar shaped,about 50 m long and 10 m wide, a dwelling shared by several nuclear families.

Answer 14

longhouse

Question 15

Religion of the Iroquois

Answer 15

Longhouse

Question 16

I believe in one God.

Answer 16

Monotheism

Question 17

The ability to express oneself fluently in the speech and to understand spoken language.
storytelling.

Answer 17

Oracy

Question 18

The belief in or worship of more than one God

Answer 18

Polytheism

Question 19

Medicine man or spiritual leader.

Answer 19

Shaman

Question 20

Coned-shaped tent and a dwelling found in the nations of the great plains

Answer 20

Tipi

Question 21

A protective entity in the form of an animal natural objects or plant.

Answer 21

Totem

Question 22

A long pole in which several totems are carved, Used to account history.

Answer 22

Totem pole

Question 23

The process of purifying and fasting in order to be sensitive to a vision or voices that might guide a person; a sacred ceremony.

• part of a rite of passage into adulthood;common to most aboriginal religions.
• person is purified; makes confession at sweat lodge.
• shaman tells youth to go far away from camp.
• youth prays, fasts, and endures elements for several days.
• must have vision which is interpreted by shaman or process is repeated.

Answer 23

Vision quest

Question 24

List the things most major religions have in common.

Answer 24

A belief in the supernatural, I believe in the afterlife, I belief in a soul, Systems of ethics/morals, the set of answers to most pressing human curiosities, Superior being: god, rituals and ceremonies, place of worship.

Question 25

Both concerned with doing the right thing

Answer 25

Ethics and religion

Question 26

Appear to be competitors in the race to understand and explain the true nature of the world.

Answer 26

Science and religion

Question 27

Does not provide all answers or meet all people's needs.

Answer 27

Technology and religion

Question 28

One is concerned with the beliefs, rituals and practises, while the other refers to a person's origin and culture.

Answer 28

Ethnicity and religion

Question 29

This one has a stereotypes of a religion in most cases.

Answer 29

Pop culture and religion

Question 30

What are the six main Aboriginal groups in Canada.

Answer 30

The subarctic, the plateau, NW pacific coast, the Great Plains, the Arctic, NE woodlands.

Question 31

Which refers to the Ojibwa in southern Ontario;participants fast and cleanse themselves and dance around the select a tree as a male elder plays the drum; Touch tree as they pass it and give thanks; dance from dawn to noon and then feast on meat and fish.

Answer 31

The morning dance

Question 32

Which refers to the Great Plains nations; part of an important summer festival; banned in late 1880s by the government of Canada; Circle identified as important symbol and sun recognized as giver of life; performed in early summer; dancers dance for long periods around a central pole; Some dancers embed wooden hooks into their skin and pull to tear their flesh; believe that enduring pain means that others will suffer less famine, war and disease.

Answer 32

The Sun dance

Question 33

What refers to Northwest Pacific Coast nations; made illegal in Canada from 1884 until 1951; feasting, dancing sharing songs , distributing wealth were all part; used to celebrate births marriages etc.; More given away by host, the greater his status.

Answer 33

The Potlatch ceremony

Question 34

What refers to Great Plains nations; cleanses both physical and spiritual body; lodge resembles a sauna; A shaman direct ceremony; all gather around heated stones and sweating cleanses participants; prayers and sacred pipe or shared.

Answer 34

The sweat lodge

Question 35

What refers to aboriginal groups from subarctic to Great Lakes region; allows communication with spirits; four poles placed deep in soil and form a circle;wooden hoops encircles poles; Top open sides enclosed; shaman asks spirits to help with problem (I.e. Find missing person; communicate with ancestor, etc.)

Answer 35

The shaking tent

Question 36

Holy places

Answer 36

Sweat lodges, shaking tent,longhouse.

Question 37

- prayers passed on through telling and retelling of events. - elders are "keepers of the word" responsible for passing on words - sometimes and aid is used (wampum, totem pole, etc.)

Answer 37

Oral teachings

Question 38

What are the important roles of a shaman?

Answer 38

Medicine man, spiritual leader. In sweat lodge a shamans role is to give directions to cleansing the physical body and spiritual body. A shamans role in shaking tent is to ask spirits to solve problems such as finding a lost object, communicating with an ancestor, locating a missing person or predicting the outcome of an event.

Question 39

What was the impact that Europeans had on the Aboriginals of Canada?

Answer 39

The Indian act which encouraged aboriginal peoples to give up their culture and adopt "white ways". Indian reserves -water quality was bad. -almost 50% of homes require repair - aboriginal children were 8 times more likely to be removed from their home. - there has been no progress on any of these issues up to 2011. Residential school - removed children from their families - wouldn't let them speak their language - physical and sexual abuse at the hands of staff and students - brutal punishments - forcing Canadian Christian ways upon students Other Wouldn't let them practice some rituals or ceremonies for ex the sun dance. Their land was stolen

Question 40

The Indian act

Answer 40

- Aboriginal peoples are placed in different legal category than other Canadians - the Canadian gov has the right to govern all aspects of Native live including the denial of the right to vote in an election. - the right to legislate "land reserved for Indians" - the gov can determine "who is an Indian"