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Religion 200
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Religious Studies
Undergraduate 2
05/04/2011

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Epoche
Definition
Suspending one's own belief; "stepping back"
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Participant-Observation
Definition
Partaking in the observation in ordder to gain deeper knowledge and insider view of a culture
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Insider-Outsider issue
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outsider see what the overview is,nothing in depth with an objective view; insider view gains deeper knowledge of culture by being in the community.
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Reductionism
Definition
gaining understanding of complex issues (religion) by reducing it to a simple idea.
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Anthropomorphism
Definition
attribution of human chaacteristics to non-human animals or non-living. ex: animal acting like human or Deities express human characteristics like jealousy.
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Dialectical materialism
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the way of understanding reality; economic affect to max efficiency and its downfall embbeded in its success.
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Disenchanment of the World
Definition
The movement of which the world is moving from magic to religion and finally the rise of science as truth.
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Collective Effervescence
Definition
energy formed by a group of people that have the same experience/belief. "The god of the clan ... can be none other then the clan itself, a loss of individuality and a unity with god."
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Animism
Definition
belief that non-human entities are spirits/spirtual beings
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Evolution
Definition
change
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Apologetics
Definition
disapline of defending a position/belief through the sympathetic use of reason/logic
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Thick Description
Definition
The way of fully defining an action/symbol in every and any way in which viewed i.e. "wink"
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Mysterium Tremendum et Fascinans
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the wholly other; fearful and fascinating mystery; the feeling good or bad which man feels in realtion to god.
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Numinous
Definition
power or presence of a divinity; Otto
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Church of Baseball
Definition
An institution or sence of community,ensures continuity through traditio, it creates a sense of uniformity, involves sacred space, engages with sacred time through ritual and revelation.
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Fetish with Coca Cola
Definition
system of symbols which act to esstablish powerful, persuasive, and long-lasting moods and motivations; related to sacred totems
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Potlatch of Rock and Roll
Definition
Relgion isnt an institution its a gift; every symbolic exchange is an exchange of power. The more one gives the more one gets of the experience.
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Wisdom sits in place
Definition
natue of experience allowing others to gain knowledge; these places become the object of awareness.
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Theoretical Toolbox
Definition
gaining of knowledge and process for gaining insight to religion
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Worldview
Definition
Fundamental cognititve orientation of a society from an outside view; way of describing the universe and life within it, both in terms of what it is and what it out to be; model from
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Ethos
Definition
guiding belief or ideals that characterize a religious group; model for/ how to be in the world
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Verstehen
Definition
understanding, entering the shoes of another
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unconscious mind
Definition
transcendence(trance like state of mind) truth
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Sympathetic magic
Definition
imitative magic, two types: relying on similiarities and relying on contact. An effect resembles its cause, things that were in contact continue to act on each other even at a distance respectivily.
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Cultural Survival
Definition
ritual and belief that are pasted on through ages
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Savage Philospher
Definition
earlyist form of philosophy, mistakes a connection of signs with connections of real objects, thus believing in magic
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Totemic Principle
Definition
religious belief centered around sacred ojects or totems; the totems embodied the clan and gave them an identity(I AM RED PARROT) even made certain actions like touching or eating the totem taboo.
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Axis Mundi
Definition
"center of the world" worship center and/or the connection between heaven and earth.
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Hierophany
Definition
To reveal the sacred or holy, signifies the manifestation of the holy.
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In Illo Tempore
Definition
in that time
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Oedipus Complex
Definition
son wants his mom and rivals against his father, killing the father out of lust for his mother. created guilt and sin created the idea of God, it shows stages in which our mind develops.
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Homo Religious
Definition
human being as a religious being
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Sacred and Profane
Definition
sacred-set apart/ forbidden, profane- issue that are not sacred and just of this earth.; sacred is determined by the group can vary by group
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Categorical Imperative
Definition
unconditional requirement that asserts its authority in all circumstances; Kant; moral philosophy
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Structuralism
Definition
a method of analyzing phenomen, anthroplogy, cheifly characterized by contrasting the elemental structure of the phenomena in a system of binary opposition
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Functionalism
Definition
understanding the roles of the identity and behaviors of society and funtion within the group sociology.
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Critiques- Feminist
Definition
both sexes are in religion wht cant women be more involved; move away from patriarchal to meta-patriarchal religion
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Critique-atheist
Definition
use large claims "if there is a god why is there war?", claim religious sites do not heal the sick, religion kills.
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Rudolf Otto
Definition
Phenamenologist/Theologian; mysterium tremendum; wholly other; numinous; religious experience; phenomena- thing which appears; anti-reducting
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E.B Tylor
Definition
anthropologist; major work-"primitive Culture"; animism is the root of all religion; cultural evolution of society, cultural survival
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J.G. Frazer
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anthropologist; early atheist, savage philosopher; religion replaces magic, sympathetic magi; armchair anthropologist; magic-religion-science 
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Karl Marx
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Cognitive science, dialectical materialism; religion is the response to opression or social injustice, histoy chaange through material, religion is the opium of the people, sociological and economic approach
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Emile Eurkheim
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sociologist, totemix principle, collective effervescence, sacred socially determined
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Max weber
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Sociologist/Economist; protestant shaped Capitalism; verstehen; explementary and emissionary; disenchantment of the world; econ success= sign of salvation.
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Sigmund Freud
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pyschologist; oedips complex; reductionist; religion is a coping mechanism; religion is wishfilfilment, primal horde
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EE Evans Pritchard
Definition
Socail Anthropologist; structure functionlist, insider-outsider view, participant-observation, religon provides meaning.
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Cillford Greetz
Definition

anthroplogist; thick description, symbolism; cultural relativism; ethos; worldview;

Study of religion involves two stages

-          Analyze meanings of symbols

-          Then trace connections between symbols and social structures, individual psychology

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Mircea Eliade
Definition
comparitist/ phenomenologist; hierophany; homo religion; ritual give access for sacred, illo tempor; axis munde
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David Chidester
Definition
American popular culture; church of baseball; fetich of coca cola; potlatch rock and roll, theoritcal toolbox; buck O'neal
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Basso
Definition
anthropologist; apache indains, wisdom sits in places, quality of mind- smooth, steady, resistant, people interaton with places
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Religious Studies
Definition
study or religons cultural based; studies pracitces; epoche; no established truths, focus on the history;
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Theology
Definition
study of god; text based; established truths; practice beliefs
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Religion
Definition
too broad of a topic/belief, no one right answerl; many approaches can be used to define religion.
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Various approaches
Definition

anthropologist- compare and study cultures

sociologist- study society

pyschologist- study of psychy/mind

congnitive scientist- study mind as information porcess and intelligence

phenomenologist- study experience and "that which appear- phenomena"

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