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Suspending one's own belief; "stepping back" |
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Partaking in the observation in ordder to gain deeper knowledge and insider view of a culture |
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outsider see what the overview is,nothing in depth with an objective view; insider view gains deeper knowledge of culture by being in the community. |
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gaining understanding of complex issues (religion) by reducing it to a simple idea. |
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attribution of human chaacteristics to non-human animals or non-living. ex: animal acting like human or Deities express human characteristics like jealousy. |
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the way of understanding reality; economic affect to max efficiency and its downfall embbeded in its success. |
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Disenchanment of the World |
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The movement of which the world is moving from magic to religion and finally the rise of science as truth. |
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energy formed by a group of people that have the same experience/belief. "The god of the clan ... can be none other then the clan itself, a loss of individuality and a unity with god." |
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belief that non-human entities are spirits/spirtual beings |
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disapline of defending a position/belief through the sympathetic use of reason/logic |
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The way of fully defining an action/symbol in every and any way in which viewed i.e. "wink" |
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Mysterium Tremendum et Fascinans |
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the wholly other; fearful and fascinating mystery; the feeling good or bad which man feels in realtion to god. |
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power or presence of a divinity; Otto |
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An institution or sence of community,ensures continuity through traditio, it creates a sense of uniformity, involves sacred space, engages with sacred time through ritual and revelation. |
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system of symbols which act to esstablish powerful, persuasive, and long-lasting moods and motivations; related to sacred totems |
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Potlatch of Rock and Roll |
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Relgion isnt an institution its a gift; every symbolic exchange is an exchange of power. The more one gives the more one gets of the experience. |
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natue of experience allowing others to gain knowledge; these places become the object of awareness. |
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gaining of knowledge and process for gaining insight to religion |
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Fundamental cognititve orientation of a society from an outside view; way of describing the universe and life within it, both in terms of what it is and what it out to be; model from |
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guiding belief or ideals that characterize a religious group; model for/ how to be in the world |
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understanding, entering the shoes of another |
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transcendence(trance like state of mind) truth |
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imitative magic, two types: relying on similiarities and relying on contact. An effect resembles its cause, things that were in contact continue to act on each other even at a distance respectivily. |
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ritual and belief that are pasted on through ages |
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earlyist form of philosophy, mistakes a connection of signs with connections of real objects, thus believing in magic |
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religious belief centered around sacred ojects or totems; the totems embodied the clan and gave them an identity(I AM RED PARROT) even made certain actions like touching or eating the totem taboo. |
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"center of the world" worship center and/or the connection between heaven and earth. |
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To reveal the sacred or holy, signifies the manifestation of the holy. |
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son wants his mom and rivals against his father, killing the father out of lust for his mother. created guilt and sin created the idea of God, it shows stages in which our mind develops. |
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human being as a religious being |
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sacred-set apart/ forbidden, profane- issue that are not sacred and just of this earth.; sacred is determined by the group can vary by group |
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unconditional requirement that asserts its authority in all circumstances; Kant; moral philosophy |
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a method of analyzing phenomen, anthroplogy, cheifly characterized by contrasting the elemental structure of the phenomena in a system of binary opposition |
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understanding the roles of the identity and behaviors of society and funtion within the group sociology. |
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both sexes are in religion wht cant women be more involved; move away from patriarchal to meta-patriarchal religion |
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use large claims "if there is a god why is there war?", claim religious sites do not heal the sick, religion kills. |
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Phenamenologist/Theologian; mysterium tremendum; wholly other; numinous; religious experience; phenomena- thing which appears; anti-reducting |
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anthropologist; major work-"primitive Culture"; animism is the root of all religion; cultural evolution of society, cultural survival |
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anthropologist; early atheist, savage philosopher; religion replaces magic, sympathetic magi; armchair anthropologist; magic-religion-science |
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Cognitive science, dialectical materialism; religion is the response to opression or social injustice, histoy chaange through material, religion is the opium of the people, sociological and economic approach |
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sociologist, totemix principle, collective effervescence, sacred socially determined |
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Sociologist/Economist; protestant shaped Capitalism; verstehen; explementary and emissionary; disenchantment of the world; econ success= sign of salvation. |
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pyschologist; oedips complex; reductionist; religion is a coping mechanism; religion is wishfilfilment, primal horde |
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Socail Anthropologist; structure functionlist, insider-outsider view, participant-observation, religon provides meaning. |
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anthroplogist; thick description, symbolism; cultural relativism; ethos; worldview;
Study of religion involves two stages
- Analyze meanings of symbols
- Then trace connections between symbols and social structures, individual psychology |
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comparitist/ phenomenologist; hierophany; homo religion; ritual give access for sacred, illo tempor; axis munde |
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American popular culture; church of baseball; fetich of coca cola; potlatch rock and roll, theoritcal toolbox; buck O'neal |
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anthropologist; apache indains, wisdom sits in places, quality of mind- smooth, steady, resistant, people interaton with places |
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study or religons cultural based; studies pracitces; epoche; no established truths, focus on the history; |
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study of god; text based; established truths; practice beliefs |
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too broad of a topic/belief, no one right answerl; many approaches can be used to define religion. |
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anthropologist- compare and study cultures
sociologist- study society
pyschologist- study of psychy/mind
congnitive scientist- study mind as information porcess and intelligence
phenomenologist- study experience and "that which appear- phenomena" |
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