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Magic, ritual, religion
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- 1common grounds- not about truths or falsehoods
- religion is universal
- how rituals express people
- faith is not a testable idea
- - 2malaysia- a way of understanding the world, which does not always correlate with an understanding of organized religion, but which shares many of its elements
- 3why are anthropologists interested in religion?universal human habits require further understanding
- variety of faiths around world is enormous
- integrated within a broad society
- part of a holistic program of research - 4emile durkham definitionsacred system
- 5catherine albanese definitionsystem of symbols holding meaning and sometimes power
- 6karl marx definitionreligion is socially constructed - sides of oppression
- 7clifford gertz definition- system of symbols
- establish power, and persuasive long lasting moods and motivations in men
- fomulating conceptions of the general order of existence
- clothing these exceptions with such an aura of factuality
- the moods and motivations seem uniquely realistic - 8textbook definitionbeliefs and rituals concerned with supernatural beings, powers, and forces
- varies culture to culture
- changes over time
- embedded into everyday life
- integrated with broader society - 9world religions- written scriptures
- salvation, from outside
- universal potential
- can supplant a primal religion
- often forms a separate sphere of activity - 10primal religions- oral or lacking scriptures
- from "this world"
- single language or ethnic group
- form the basis of world religion
- No division of sacred and profane - 11history...early thinkers argued religion was a sign of evolutionary progress, and that some faiths were more sensical than others
- john lubbock, james frazer, Lewis henry Morgan - 12theories of universalityintellectual understanding, reversion to childhood feelings, anxiety and uncertainty, a need for community
- 13intellectual understanding- people have a need to understand
- religion come about to speculation about death, and dreams and other stuff - 14reversion to childhood feelings- looking at their parents are super powerful and they understand everything
- when adults feel out of control they look at these feelings - 15anxiety and uncertainty- everyone has it and everyone experiences it no matter who or where they are
- 16a need for community- need to create groups around those who have knowledge
- social not psychological - 17common languagesmyth, ritual, supernatural forces, taboo, spiritual beings, magic
- 18myth- people assumed knowledge about the universe and the natural and supernatural worlds and humanities place therein
- - not a story but a reality lived
- creation myths
- have a begninning to the world as we know it
- - 19animismall plants, animals, and creatures have a spiritual life
- 20ritual- repetitive behaviours that communicate sacred symbols to members of a society
- rituals have power and by doing things within your religion, you can create power and sacred symbols within yourself
- 3 stages
- preliminal - liminal - post liminal - 21taboo- a prohibition that if violated, is believed to bring supernatural punishment
- 22key actorsshamans, sorcerers/ witches, priests, mediums
- 23witchcraft and sorcerywitchcraft- primarily the power of emotion and though, while sorcery includes the use of objects and other materials
- often explains illness, coincidences, luck
- uses notion of limited good - 244 types of witchcraft- european folk practices
- shadow version of christianity
- african witchcraft
- neo-pagan revivals of witchcraft - 25shamanism- power and spirits
- trance and ecstasy
- becoming a shaman
- tools of the trade - 26power and spiritsspirits are not necessarily benevolent
- 27trance and ecstacysocially recognized power
- 28becoming a shaman- trials and quests of initiation
- shaman and liminality - 29tools of the trade- poles, drums, clothes, songs, and chants
- 30canontexts formally recognized as the valid documents for establishing the doctrine and practice of religion
- 31text and religion- literalism
- straight forward
- non literalism
- not - 32diversity- no religion exists with complete homogeneity of belief or practice
- religions differ on the degree to which diversity is accepted
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