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Religion

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an organized system of ideas about the spiritual sphere or the supernatural and associated ceremonial practices

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Spirituality

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Concern with the scared, as distinguished from material matters

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Animism

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belief that nature is animated by personalized spirit beings

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Animatism

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belief that nature is enlivened by an impersonal spriritual power or supernatural potency

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Shaman

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A person who enters an altered state of consciousness to contact hidden reality to acquire knowledge, power, and to help others

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Rite of Passage

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A ritual that marks an important stage in and individual’s life cycle, such as birth, marriage, and death

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Separation

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Ritual removal of individual from society

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Transition

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Isolation of individual after separation and before incorporation

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Incorporation

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Reincorporation of individual into society in his new status

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Rite of intensification

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A ritual that takes place during a crisis in the life of the group and serves to bind individuals together

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Imitative magic

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Magic based on the principle that like produces like

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Contagious magic

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Magic based on the principle that things or person once in contact can influence each other after contact

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Divination

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A magical procedure or spiritual ritual designed to find out about what is not knowable by ordinary means e.g. interpreting omens

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Age grade

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An organized category of people based on age

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Age set

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A formally established group of people born during a certain time span who move through the series of age-grade categories together

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Stratified societies

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Societies in which people are hierarchically divided and do not share their resources equally

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Egalitarian societies

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Everyone has equal rank, access to, and power over basic resources

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Spirituality

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Concern with the sacred matters

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Animism

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A belief that nature is animated by distinct personalized spirit beings separable from bodies.