REL 1000 : Religion 1000 Exam 1 Key Words
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Animism, the belief that all nature is alive and filled with unseen spirits that may worshiped or placated. They see a soul or a self existing in trees, stones, rivers, and heavenly bodies: magic, attempts to influence the action of nature through special practices, dances, rituals, and incantation. The totem becomes sacred to the group and may not be killed by its members under certain ritual conditions: ancestor veneration, veneration of deceased members of the family. African american religions: nuer, east african ethnic group with a particularly strong belief in the high god. This term, found in many indian religions, was introduced by the jains. Adherents make every effort to care for all forms of life and seek to avoid injuring or killing any creature: aryan, sanskrit word that means the noble one ; applied to migrants who moved into the. Indus valley from persia in the second millennium b. c. e: vedas, basically, a collection of hymns to the aryan gods.
