RELS 3714 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Neolin, Peyote, Native American Church

• School: University of Iowa
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELS 3714
• Professor: Schnell Scott

Document Summary

Religious movement: any general and deliberate change in religious beliefs and practices. Have several characteristics: changes and people who adopted have a named identity, tend to occur within broader context of contact, change, and conflict, have limited duration. Movement will die out or disappear from view. Some innovations and practices absorbed by existing. Also have 2 other features: religions: know leader or originator (visionary)-often called prophet. If there"s a fou(cid:374)der, their (cid:374)a(cid:373)e (cid:373)ay (cid:271)e(cid:272)o(cid:373)e title of the (cid:373)o(cid:448)e(cid:373)e(cid:374)t. Put into categories based off central characteristics: nativistic: emphasize the abandonment of foreign ways and return to indigenous ones, messianic: involve a messiah or savior, millennial: proclaims end of or transformation of the world. Past couple years, anthropologists have termed all categories as: Delaware prophet: following defeat of french and indians by the british. Prophet preached the union of tribes and return to old way of life: neoli(cid:374)= (cid:862)the e(cid:374)lighte(cid:374)ed(cid:863)-had vision to do these things by master of life.