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Unit Exam One
Indiginous religions
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Religious Studies
Undergraduate 1
09/18/2012

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Animism
Definition
The belief, common in indigenous religions, that all reality is infused with spirits or a spiritual force and is therfore alive.
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Anthropocentric
Definition
The view that humans are at the center of creation.
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Atheism
Definition
The denial of the existence of a personal god or, for some today, of any spiritual reality.
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Biocentric
Definition
The perspective that all living beings form one community; humans are not the center.
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Cardinal Direction
Definition
North, East, South, and West.
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Comparative
Definition
branch of the study of religions concerned with the systematic comparison of the doctrines and practices of the worlds religions.
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Cosmogonic myth
Definition
that is they describe the ordering of the cosmos from a state of chaos or amorphousness.
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Descriptive
Definition
Focus on the understanding includeing the phenomenological, historical, functional, adn comparative methods.
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Ecstatic
Definition
An altered state of consciousness characterized by greatly reduced external awareness and expanded interior mental and spiritual awareness which is frequently accompanied by visions and emotional/intuitive euphoria.
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Eschatological myth
Definition
That there is an end of time.
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Evaluative
Definition
The religious approach to studying religion and the philosophical.
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Fetish
Definition
Sacred objects that assist in the pursuit of harmony. example feathers,drums, sacred pipe.
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Functional
Definition
Study seeking to understand the function or role religion plays in a human context
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Ghost Dance
Definition
Dance that would restore Native American Traditions and destroy white oppression.
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Mysticism
Definition
Directed unmediated experience of the ultimate and the path that lead such experience.
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Ultimacy
Definition
The focus of life that defines life or true reality for that person or community.
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Theism
Definition
Belief in one or more personal deities.
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Monotheism
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Belief in one all-powerful personal deity who created, sustains, and will judge the cosmos.
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Polytheism
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Belief in a multiplicity of personal deities.
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Henotheism
Definition
Many gods exist but one is dominant
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Pantheism
Definition
All reality is god.
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Monism
Definition
Belief in an impersonal ultimacy that is characterized b absolute unity.
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Secular Religion
Definition
Non-spiritual this-worldly ultimacies.
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Phenomenological
Definition
Attempts to understand religion from the religious person themselves.
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Historical
Definition
Understand religion as they have come into existence and developed through time.
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Symbol
Definition
Object, Word, or Action that points toward or allows experience of and/or paricipation in ultimacy.
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Indigenous
Definition
Originating in a particular area or region.
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Matakuye Oyasin
Definition
All my relations or we are all related.
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Shaman
Definition
Holy person possessed or taken over by the spiritual powers, becomes and intermediary between the spirit world and people.
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Magic
Definition
The manipulation of other beings through spells, incantations, or other means.
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Imitative Magic
Definition
Something happens to a photo/doll will happen to the person. Voodoo.
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Taboo
Definition
An object, action or a person that must be avoided because of its potentially injurious power.
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Totem
Definition
An animal, plant,or object with which a group develops special relationships.
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Rites of Passage
Definition
Rituals that mark and facilitate the transition from on state of life to the next, typically birth/puberty/marriage/death.
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High God
Definition
A deity who is responsible for creating the world but who then withdraws.
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Wakan Tanka
Definition
Oglala's central deity.
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Wakana
Definition
Holiness
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Ritual Clowns/Contraries
Definition
They do everything in reverse to ward off storms and provide comic relief.
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White Buffalo Calf Woman
Definition
Woman who brough the sacred pipe.
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Sacred Pipe
Definition
A prayer pipe that prays with and for everything and everyone.
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Sweat Lodge
Definition
Ritual of purification.
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Vision Quest
Definition
Cry for a vision.
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Sun Dance
Definition
Ritual of rejuvenation.
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Syncretism
Definition
The combination of different systems of philosophical or religious belief or practice.
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Potlatch
Definition
Gift-giving ceremony.
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Sacred Space
Definition
A sacred space is a site where the human search for meaning and truth and divine inspiration commingles with practices and beliefs in the attempt to find answers.
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Sacred Time
Definition
Time out of time.
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