REL 2300 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Sleep Deprivation, Cosmogony, Red Hair
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Test review 1: explanations for origin of religion. Fear of death => have something to believe in. Faith: is real: categories for religious taxonomies (handout) Holy unholy clean unclean blessed cursed sacred profane. Excom- municated (matthew: proofs used in religious story. Animals and trees that stayed up till the end. Earth and the sky for the navajo art. Architechtural site = stone hinge anf earthworks of n. america. Effects on society = healing: examples of sacred specialists. Storyteller: the traditions are oral rather than written, these people must memorize long and complex stories and songs so that the group"s sacred traditions can be remembered and taught, generation after generation. Shamans: mystical intermediaries between the physical and the non- physical world for specific purpose, such as healing. Storytellers, poets, tricksters or sacred fools, sacred clowns and dancers, priests and priestesses. In homeopathic magic, the person performing the spell will act out what he wants to happen.
