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| The belief, common in indigenous religions, that all reality is infused with spirits or a spiritual force and is therfore alive. |
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| The view that humans are at the center of creation. |
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| The denial of the existence of a personal god or, for some today, of any spiritual reality. |
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| The perspective that all living beings form one community; humans are not the center. |
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| North, East, South, and West. |
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| branch of the study of religions concerned with the systematic comparison of the doctrines and practices of the worlds religions. |
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| that is they describe the ordering of the cosmos from a state of chaos or amorphousness. |
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| Focus on the understanding includeing the phenomenological, historical, functional, adn comparative methods. |
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| An altered state of consciousness characterized by greatly reduced external awareness and expanded interior mental and spiritual awareness which is frequently accompanied by visions and emotional/intuitive euphoria. |
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| That there is an end of time. |
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| The religious approach to studying religion and the philosophical. |
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| Sacred objects that assist in the pursuit of harmony. example feathers,drums, sacred pipe. |
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| Study seeking to understand the function or role religion plays in a human context |
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| Dance that would restore Native American Traditions and destroy white oppression. |
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| Directed unmediated experience of the ultimate and the path that lead such experience. |
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| The focus of life that defines life or true reality for that person or community. |
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| Belief in one or more personal deities. |
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| Belief in one all-powerful personal deity who created, sustains, and will judge the cosmos. |
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| Belief in a multiplicity of personal deities. |
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| Many gods exist but one is dominant |
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| Belief in an impersonal ultimacy that is characterized b absolute unity. |
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| Non-spiritual this-worldly ultimacies. |
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| Attempts to understand religion from the religious person themselves. |
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| Understand religion as they have come into existence and developed through time. |
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| Object, Word, or Action that points toward or allows experience of and/or paricipation in ultimacy. |
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| Originating in a particular area or region. |
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| All my relations or we are all related. |
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| Holy person possessed or taken over by the spiritual powers, becomes and intermediary between the spirit world and people. |
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| The manipulation of other beings through spells, incantations, or other means. |
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| Something happens to a photo/doll will happen to the person. Voodoo. |
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| An object, action or a person that must be avoided because of its potentially injurious power. |
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| An animal, plant,or object with which a group develops special relationships. |
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| Rituals that mark and facilitate the transition from on state of life to the next, typically birth/puberty/marriage/death. |
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| A deity who is responsible for creating the world but who then withdraws. |
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| They do everything in reverse to ward off storms and provide comic relief. |
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| Woman who brough the sacred pipe. |
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| A prayer pipe that prays with and for everything and everyone. |
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| The combination of different systems of philosophical or religious belief or practice. |
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| A sacred space is a site where the human search for meaning and truth and divine inspiration commingles with practices and beliefs in the attempt to find answers. |
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