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| Belief in spiritual beings |
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| An organized and sterotyped symoblic behavior intended to influence supernatural powers |
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| A public ceremony or ritual recognizing and marking a person's transition from one group or status to another |
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| The patterned changes in roles, rights, obligations, and social relationships that individuals experince as they move through culturally defined age categories |
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| A religious ceremony that symbolically transforms the individual from a child into an adult |
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| Individualistic Practices |
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Religious practices based on personal relationships between specific individuals and specific supernatural powers
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An individualistic practice in which a person attempts to enlist the aid of supernatural powers by intentionally seeking a dream or vision
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| A part-time religous specialist who uses his special relationship to supernatural powers for curing members of his group and harming members of other groups |
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| Religious pratices in which individuals have relationships with supernatural powers that ordinary people lack |
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| Religious practices in which the members of a group cooperate in the performance of rituals intended to benefit all |
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Rituals performed to worship or please a kinship group's ancestors
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| Rituals during which members of a kinship group focus on their totem, a natural object with which they are associated |
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| Religious specialists, often full-time, who officiate at rituals |
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| Highly organized religious practices in which a full-time priesthood performs rituals believed to benefit believers or the whole society; occur in complex societies |
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| Intellectual/cognitive function of religion |
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| The notion that religious beliefs provide explanations for puzzling things and events |
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| Social function of religion |
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| The notion that religion maintains the institutions of society as a whole |
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| Psychological function of religion |
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| The notion that people derive comfort from religion and that religion helps people cope with misfortunes and death |
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| The performance of rites and spells for the purpose of causing harm to others by supernatural means |
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| The use of psychic power to cause harm to others by supernatural means |
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