Religion

Question 1

Religion

Answer 1

A set of belifs and patterned behaviors concerned with supernatural beings and forces

Question 2

Magic

Answer 2

Magic involves the manipution of supernatural forces for the purpose of intervening into human activities and natural events

Question 3

Common features of Religion and magic

Answer 3

• Both are systems of supernatural belifs
• Both are non-rational and not susceptible to scientific verification
• Both used as a way to cope with anxieties, ambiguities, and frustrations

Question 4

Differences between religion and magic

Answer 4

• Religion deals with major issues of human existence, magic directed towards specific immediate problems
• Religion uses prayer and sacrifices to appeal to petition supernatural , magic is the attempt to control or manipulate nature of other people through effort
• Religion is, by and large, group activity, magic is more indiviually oriented
• Religion usually involves officially recognized functionaries, magic perfomed by a wide variety of practitioners
• Witchcraft is an inborn, involuntary, often unconscious capacity to cause harm to other people
• Sorcery involves material, potions, medicines, deliberate use of supernatural powers to bring about harm

Question 5

Myths

Answer 5

Stories that transmit culturally meaningful messages about the uivers, the natural and supernatural worlds, and a person’s place within it.

Question 6

Functions of religion

Answer 6

• Psychological functions
• Social Functions

Question 7

Social functions of religion

Answer 7

• Social control
• conflict resolution
• Group solidarity

Question 8

Pyschological functions of religion

Answer 8

• Cognitive functions
• Emotional functions

Question 9

Supernatural power

Answer 9

• Gods and goddesses
• Ancestral spirits
• Animism
• Animatism

Question 10

Gods and Goddesses

Answer 10

• The great and more remote supernatural beings
• Usually seen as controlling the uiverse, or if several recognized, each has charge of a particular part of the universe

Question 11

Ancestral Sprits

Answer 11

• Belief that spirit continues to exist in the world after death
• Resembe the living in their emotions, behaviors, and appetites
• Ancestral spirits often belived to retain an active interst in the society

Question 12

Animism

Answer 12

The belief that spirit beings that animate nature

Question 13

Animatism

Answer 13

The belife that the world is animated byimpersonal supernatural powers

Question 14

Types of religious organization

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• Individualistic cults
• Shamanistic cults
• Communal cults
• Ecclesiastic cults

Question 15

Shamans

Answer 15

A part-time religious specialist who has unique power acquired through his or her initiative; such individuals are thought to possess exceptional abilities for dealing with supernatural beings and powers

Question 16

two types of rituals

Answer 16

• rites of passage
• Rite of solidarity

Question 17

Rites of passage

Answer 17

Any ceremony celebrating the transition of a person from one social status to another

Question 18

Rites of solidarity

Answer 18

Any ceremony performed for the sake of enhancing the level of social integration among a group of people

Question 19

Priests and priestesses

Answer 19

Full-time religious specialists

Question 20

Revitalization movements

Answer 20

A religious movement designed to bring about a new way of life within a society

Question 21

Nativistic movement

Answer 21

a movement that tries to reconstitute a destroyed but not forgotten way of life

Question 22

Cargo Cutls

Answer 22

Belief that old ways will be resurrected, suppressive colonial power removes, coming of utopian riches

Question 23

Millenarian movements

Answer 23

A revitalization movement that attempts to resurrect a suppressed group that has long suffered in an inferior social position and that has its own special subcultural ideology