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Living Religions 6th E
Chapter 2 - Indenous Sacred Ways
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Religious Studies
Undergraduate 2
03/09/2008

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Indigenous
Definition
Native to the land
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Cloud of Witnesses
Definition
Ancestors persist after death
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Supreme Being
Definition
God is both immanent and trancendent
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Immanent
Definition
God within us
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Transcendent
Definition
God greater than just inside us
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Mana
Definition
spirtual presence (impersonal)
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Animism
Definition
personal spiritual presence
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Circle
Definition
cycles - spirals
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indigenous peoples
Definition
descendents of the original inhabitants of lands 
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cosmogony
Definition
beliefs concerning the creation of the world 
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shaman
Definition
mystical intermediaries between the physical and non-physical world
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Vodou
Definition
a Dahomey tradition from West African carried to Haiti by African slaves 
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divination
Definition
interpretation of omens 
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sacred pipe
Definition
given to the Plains Indians as a tool for communicating with the divine
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vision quest
Definition
a practice in which an individual through fasting, prayer, and isolation seeks a spiritual revelation 
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sun dance
Definition
among the Oglala Lakota, participants in this ceremony go for four days without food and water seeking blessings for their people 
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Backster effect
Definition
Plant's ability to discern truth
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Ley Lines
Definition
Meridian lines on earth, thought of as powerful- vital energy force
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Power Objects
Definition
Talisman
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Prerequisites for Sun Dance
Definition
  • Vision quest
  • tree
  • sacred pipe
  • whistle
  • piercing
  • rebirth
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