REL 1000 Study Guide - Final Guide: Actual Size, Kwamashu, Medicine Man
Document Summary
Pathetic fallacy giving human characteristics to objects, feelings or ideas. The mercator map is better for traveling and trip distance. The peters projection map is for the actual size of things. Insider vs outsider debate (people who are religious vs those who aren"t) Divination: predicting the future or to interrupt events. Magic: a way to try to control the world around us. Taboos: places, people , things, etc. that should be avoided. Consequences is something bad will happen to you. Rites of passage: rituals to mark important moments in a person"s life, the moment of one part of your life to another. Animism: belief that there is spiritual forces in the natural world. Sacrifice: give something up either physical or just your life style. Myth: stories that are meant to tell some truth, and wither or not the story is true is irrelevant. Rituals: repetitive action with symbolic meaning behind them. Large intellectual tradition- questions the certainty of knowledge.
