ANTHR 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Millenarianism, Syncretism, Animism
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Metropolitan: future is better than the past, based on time, separate from nature, superior to nature industrialized societies tomorrow is a better day. Animatism force that exist (out in the universe, not good or bad) Animism everything in nature has a soul (oldest belief) Cults- industrialized world, beliefs are considered bizarre. Voodoo- very common in caribbean, african religion & roman catholicism. Syncretism- two or more religions, putting them together and creating a new one. Messianic- focus on the coming of an individual who will usher in a utopian world. Millenarian- coming catastrophe that will bring a new age. Shaman- found in arctic, circle, can intercede with the supernatural, common in non- industrialized societies. Formal: aka social, based upon written law, which defines what you can and cannot do, defines relationships, external. Informal: aka cultural, internalized, what you can & cannot do get from religious beliefs, friends, family, and peers, patterns and religion. Politics: competition of power over the people.
