ANTHROP 1AB3 Chapter Notes - Chapter Chapter 3: Sweat Lodge, Syncretism, Industrial Revolution
13 Jul 2018
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Urbanization leads to destabilizing cultural systems, which then leads to people turning to turning to the supernatural to deal with the associated anxiety. Reactional religious movements: radical turn to sacred texts which are narrowly interpreted by conservative spiritual leaders. Movements for radical culture reform in response to social disruption and feelings of stress and despair. Many movements develop in societies where european colonial exploitation caused enormous upheaval. Also emerged in response to the industrial revolution. One of the best among the muslims is the ahmadsiyya, founded during british colonial rule when there were christian missionaries working in hindu, muslim, and sikh communtiies. The followers, called ahmadis believe that allah send mirza ahmad as prophet. He embodied the send coming of christ and was set to bring about the nal triumph of islam as the only true religion. Us revitalization movements include traditional american indian ceremonies such as sweat lodge and sun dance.
