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International
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Strong prescence outside of the country from which they began
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Civil Religion
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Combination of religion and nationalism
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Emergent Religion
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Break through cultures during periods of great change
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Characteristics
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New religions, people that feel like they're disempowered (emphasis on the future)
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Monk or Nun
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Lives monastic life, lives outside or narrow structure of what society should does it for own salvation, ideal of perfection, & support through prayer
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Layperson
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Has no training & offers materials support as well as spiritual support
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Philosopher/ Theologian
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Interprets religion in terms of the intellectual tradition of culture
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Priest
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mediates the sacred with out becoming possessed
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Shaman
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Uses his connective power to enter spiritual world becomes possessed
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Cult (expansive)
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Breaks away and adds elements from outside
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Sect (intensive)
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one that breaks away, nothing new just greater emphasis
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Stages of Religious development:

Childhood
 

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enter the profane world and come back, move in and out of different realities
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Stages of Religious development:

Infancy

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Babies learn by seeing things
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Religious States of Consciousness:

1) Peak Experience

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maslow, the feeling of joy and creativity that comes in the peak of a high moment
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Religious States of Consciousness:

Sufficiency

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Wholeness & effortlessness
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Religious States of Consciousness:

3) Meditations

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those types of excercises help realize your experiencing the peak
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Religious States of Consciousness:

4) religious guilt 

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The guilt is the separation of who you are and how you just acted
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Religious States of Consciousness:

5) Dependecy

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Stages of religious development:

Adolescence

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the hay day of religion, the prime of religion. The most emotional stage
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Stages of religious development

Adulthood

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less emotion, more tired
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Stages of religious development:

Old age

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not so emotional, contained. Live in the present. Gives sociality and wisdom
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Turners stages of initiation:

Separation

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First step when you try to become something else
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Turners stages of initiation:

Liminality

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Turners stages of initiation:

Reagregation

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When you are different from when you first started
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State of conciousness:

Parallel transitions

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Religions offer parallel to transitions in life
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State of conciousness:

Support transitions

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Religion supports changes later in life
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State of conciousness:

Symbolic return

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Religion offers symbolic return to earlier stages in life
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State of conciousness:

Consciousness

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How you percieve the world around you at any given moment
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Normative moral literature
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Gives us text to lay out what exactly is normal
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Normative nature of society
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tells us what normal in religion. society is influencd by religion
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popularizer
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a person who makes the tradition appealing to the masses
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Reformer
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works within the dominate tradition rather than start a new one
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Founder
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someon who creates a new religion, has to have good knowledge
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Established
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structure parallel those of society mirrors where they came from
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Denominations
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subsets of bigger religious groups
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    Conscious

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engaged right now, know what you’re thinking.
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     Preconscious

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most of what we know exist. Easily retrievable. Back of the brain to the front of your brain.
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     Unconscious

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the way people behave. Contains desires, basic urges, etc. assemblage. Things you don’t fully process.
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 ID

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the part of the personality that only interested in fulfilling our basic thrives. To satisfy basic urges
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   Super-ego

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internalization of social norms
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 Ego

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tries to satisfy both urges
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  Totem & Taboo

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1913 Humans lived in large clans. Dominated by male figures. The males killed the father figure. brought back the father figure by a totem figure. Cannot kill the totem object, no incense.
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Emile Durkheim
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Published: Elementary Forms of Religious Life

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  Sacred

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are always as apart superior, powerful, forbidden to normal contact and deserving of great respect
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  Profane

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ordinary, normal, uneventful things
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   Definition of Religion

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a unified system of beliefs & practices relative to sacred things that is to say things that sell apart & forbidden
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 Totemic Principle

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spirit behind the totem object.
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collective effervescence

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what you feel spiritually

 

honoring the totem is a way of worshipping yourself

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 Soul

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 the voice of clan internalized

o   When you die it recycles into the group spirit(belief of afterlife)

 

o   Leads to belief in souls

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·      Purpose of Religion

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Not intellectual but social. Serves as the carrier for rituals to help express. Unifies people that agree on a sacred thing.
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Freud Pals

Conscious

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engaged right now, know what you’re thinking.
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Freud Pals

Preconscious

Definition
most of what we know exist. Easily retrievable. Back of the brain to the front of your brain.
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·      Unconscious

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the way people behave. Contains desires, basic urges, etc. assemblage. Things you don’t fully process.
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Id

Definition
the part of the personality that only interested in fulfilling our basic thrives. To satisfy basic urges
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Super-ego

Definition
internalization of social norms
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·      Totem & Taboo

Definition
1913 Humans lived in large clans. Dominated by male figures. The males killed the father figure. brought back the father figure by a totem figure. Cannot kill the totem object, no incense.
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