SRS 1110 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Guide: Wiccan Church, Rudolf Hess, Brain Death
1 Dec 2016
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How we interact, and believe the world is put together. Elder: someone who has gained experience and has great wisdom. Ritual: repeated organized acts, usually with an anticipated outcome. Either medical profession or religion: can be action or words, routinezation: making something routine. Something that is true to people of a culture or religion. Fairytale: understood not to be true, however they teach a lesson. For something to be occulted, hidden except for those that need to know. Magik use of paranormal or energies to some degree. Advanced technique indistinguishable from magic arthur c. clark. Similes: something that is like another thing: similar qualities. Metaphor can be ambiguous, sound like a literal statement. Most religious texts is in metaphoric language. Witch: 5 different unrelated phenomena of witch or witchcraft, some applied or self-applied. The anthropological witch: colonial europe (south america, africa) Indigenous people had religions different than the colonists: witch doctor (leader, cultural elder)
