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| belief and ritual concerned with supernatural beings, powers, and forces |
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| intense feeling of social solidarity |
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| worship of multiple deities, who control aspects of nature |
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| worship of an external, omniscient, omnipotent, and omnipresent supreme being |
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| impersonal sacred force, so named in Melanesia and Polynesia |
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| sacred and forbidden; prohibition backed by supernatural sanctions |
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| belief in souls or doubles |
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| use of supernatural techniques to accomplish specific ends |
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| formal, repetitive, stereotypical behavior; based on a liturgical order |
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| rites marking transitions between places, or stages of life |
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| the in-between phase of a passage rite |
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| a system, often religious, for imagining and understanding the universe |
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| an animal, plant, or geographic feature associated with a specific group, to which that totem is sacred or symbolically important |
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| custom that brings standouts back in line with community norms |
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| a part-time magico-religious practitioner |
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| movements aimed at altering or revitalizing a society |
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| cultural, especially religious, mixes, emerging from acculturation |
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| postcolonial, acculturative religious movements in Melanesia |
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| rejecting the modern for a presumed earlier, purer, better way |
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| advocating strict fidelity to a religion's presumed founding principles |
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