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| The melding of indigenous practices with other religions |
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| life-enhancing power that can be concentrated in people or objects. No personal deities. |
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| Priestly. endowed with power to contact the spiritual world |
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| Nigeria and Benin. 20 mil. Many deities. |
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| Other deities. 401 of them. Distinct sets of duties. |
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| Yoruba conceptions of human beings |
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| All humans have power called ashe. |
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| Reincarnation by our choice. |
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| Native American Religion in the Plains. Sacred land. Buffalo are sacred. Vision quests. |
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| Aboriginal: the memory of the primordial history of the world. When the ancestors shaped the world. Myths about local geography etc. How they were created. |
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| The use of totems, connected to rules about kinship, friendship, marriage, and warfare. It establishes social identity. |
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| Had a vision that started the cattle killing movement, didn't come true and was put in prison |
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| Militaristic resistance to native american colonization. |
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| Ghost Dance leader. Given special powers by god to revive the west. |
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| Cavalry came into Wounded Knee and tried to remove the weapons from the natives, a protest started and they opened fire, killing 300/350 Natives. |
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| White government took aboriginal children from their families and declared them wards of the state. |
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| More philosophical. Human relationships based on cosmic moral order. |
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| Leader of Confucianism, but was not popular until after his death. |
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| Heaven is a divine being that must be obeyed |
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Ruler/Official
Father/Son
Husband/Wife
Elder/Younger Siblings
Friend/Friend |
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| Book of Confucius' sayings |
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| Confucianism brought back w/ a stronger metaphysical system, believed that the individual was linked to a cosmic order and action would alter this order. |
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| Same time as Confucianism. Response to ritualistic china. Ancestor worship. |
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| Text attributed to a man name Laozi "old master". Poetic. Metaphysics, political theory, human philosophy. Uses riddles to express truths. |
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| the Dao is both the source of creation as well as a force that permeates all life. It is an “energy” that creates and sustains. It cannot be known logically, however, and can only be known and understood through silence and experience. |
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| non-action or non-interference. action without over-action. going with the flow. |
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Celestial Master School. 2nd Century.
Complete Perfection. Largest school in china. Monastic and ascetic. Meditation and Alchemy. |
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Meditaion and breathing exercises. "inner alchemy"
Outer alchemy - seeking to transform metals into an elixer to ingest to give birth to a child whose body and soul are invincible to death and decay. |
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| confused about religion. wanted to know which church was right. |
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| Prayed and was appeared to by the Father and the Son and was told that all the other churches were wrong and that he would restore the Church of Jesus Christ. |
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| An angel that visited Smith and told him about the gold plates. |
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| Translation of the plates |
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| Reorganized Latter Day Saints |
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| No plural marriage. Lead by Joseph III, Leader must be a descendant. |
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| leader of the larger coup. 3 polygamous marriages and publicized plural marriage. Lead the saints to Utah. |
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| Battalion connected to the support of the church. Never saw battle. |
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| Mountain Meadows Massacre |
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| Mormons killed 120 citizens that were traveling. |
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| Living individuals are baptized in a temple ritual on behalf of someone else. |
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| Married by the church and valid for all eternity. Necessary for mormon men to be exalted as gods of their own planets. |
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| Polygamy. Mormon men married to more than one woman. |
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| The end times. Or Revelation, something occurred in them. Expressive and sometimes terrifying images the represented larger themes or historical events. |
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| Studied prophecies. About the second coming of christ. 144000 members of the church. |
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| became president after russel died. "new world society" |
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| New name for bible students, follow a specific god named Jehovah. |
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| Jehova version of the Bible. Including the word in places where it actually isn't in the bible. They don't use the cross because it has become an idol. |
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| gets rid of unwanted sensations, unpleasant emotions and psychosomatic ill that block happiness. |
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| Asking questions that get to the root of your problems and get a win or revelation. |
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| The clear is someone free from engrams. They can be happy. |
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| One who handles things without having to use a body of physical means. Controls matter, energy, space and time. |
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