ANTH 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Venomous Snake, Class Stratification, Economic Inequality
14 Nov 2018
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Pentecostal religions: the holy ghost" (holy spirit in the christian trinity) Highly decentralized christian churches that emphasize the worship of. Ultimate goal for the believer is to receive the holy spirit. Ecstatic religion: trance states, indifference to pain, involuntary. Their services may include these practices, which are believed to show that the movements, speaking in tongues, deep meditation individual has the spirit: Healing via the laying on of hands". May be a religious response to widening (income & social class) gaps between rural areas and urban areas. They spring up because of charismatic people who recruit a small amount of people who also want that specific type of worship. Found a lot in poor, urban areas. A monopoly of force vested in a political elite. I. e. a standing army, a full-time military. A market economy based on currency rather than exchange-in-kind. Based on differential access to strategic resources . Strategic resources are things that have the potential to create wealth.
