REL 2300 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Pantheism

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Lists: explanation for origin of religion, materialistic a. i. Religion is man-made; only physical explanations for the cause, no supernatural: functional perspective b. i. Religion is useful; social order/stability: faith perspective c. i. 2: places for the sacred, the jungle, the church, examples of sacred specialists, shamans a. i. Man or woman who has undergone spiritual ordeals and can communicate with the spirit world to help the people in indigenous traditions. The indians are afraid of the world growing old, the cords breaking, and earth sinking down to the ocean: at first the earth was flat and very soft and wet. b. i. Birds were sent out in flight to see if there were dry parts of land to rest on b. ii. By the seventh night, only the owl and panther stayed awake throughout the night. Of the trees, only the cedar, the pine, the spruce, the holly, and the laurel were awake to the end. f. ii. 1.

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