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| sense of camaraderie that occurs between people undergoing the same right of passage or a period of anti-structure where community bonds are enhanced by a sense of equality as social roles fall away |
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| Characteristics of spontaneous memorialization (2) |
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Occurs when deaths are unexpected (like young children and those in accidents)
Differs from traditional funeral rites in that it allows friends, acquaintances and even complete strangers to deal with death in their own way |
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| Why are zombies still relevant in modern society? |
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| they represent our fear of death, fear of the unknown, fear of disease and fear of science |
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| A sense that occurs when in contact with the divine/sacred, achieving a sense of wholeness |
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| subjective or participative interpretation of an event |
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| objective or scientific interpretation of an event |
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| a belief in the separation of mind and body |
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| refers to the human need for understanding and their attempts to rationalize the unexplainable phenomenons of the world. This leads to practicing magic, witchcraft, etc. in order to explain and control the uncontrollable. |
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Rationality-human reason, unindated by divine revelation, is the sole guide to attainable truth
Empiricism-All knowledge is gained through the senses
Objectivity- When science is done properly, science should be objective |
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| a practice of explaining belief systems. They are meant more as a moral lesson rather than historical truth |
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| Parts of Victor Turner's rite of passage cycle? (3) |
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| Separation, transition, reincorporation |
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| What is the phrase commonly used to sum up liminality? |
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| The sate of being "betwixt and between" |
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| Difference between religions of practice and religions of belief |
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| Ritual is important in religions of practice, whereas it is not as significant or non-existent in religions of belief |
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| a way of ordering information and interpreting events |
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| something that represents or points to something else and whose meaning is neither obvious nor intrinsic (building blocks of ritual and myth) |
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| Components that define a culture (3) |
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how people understand what they perceive
what they do/how they act
the material products they produce |
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| a rule that has no meaning and may not even be stated but it is something you avoid doing |
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| The characteristic that defines a prophet |
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| Personal charisma that exists within themselves outside of the institution |
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| Steps in a paradigm shift |
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pre-paradigm
normal science
anomalies appear and create crisis
revolutionary science
revolutionary becomes normal again |
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| Differences between a shaman, a priest and a prophet |
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Shaman-independent religious operator or a priest of a small-scale society
Priest-a representative of an institution and is associated with an organized, permanent religion
Prophet- a preist who experiences a "personal call" and bases his authority on revelation and personal charisma |
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| the mind and anything else relate to the surroundings. Everything is based on the perception of the person. "I think, therefore I am." |
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| a set of beliefs to explain, understand and give meaning to what is not known about life and humanity in gereral |
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| "non-overlapping magesteria" |
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| Stephen Jay Gould: the idea that there are domains of teaching authority and that science and religion do not have to always be in opposition with one another |
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| puzzle-solving within the restrictive constraints of a paradigm, where the scientific community agrees on some theory or terminology and you are creating knowledge for knowledge's sake |
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| introduction of a new paradigm that causes a transformation in the way you understand the world, usually the result of a crisis |
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