Anthropology 100 Religion
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- a return to order, maintainence of the balance, reflects the idea that something has gone wrong and needs to be put right. enforces people's ideas of values and norms in society
- rites of intensification
- priests and priestesses, prophets, shamans
- religious leaders
- societies with unilineal descent groups. spirits survive death of the body and live on and remain interested in the living
- ancestral spirits
- speak on behalf of the supernatural to the people, undergo no training, based on personal charism, not always liked, not incorporated into social structure
- prophets
- rain dances, confession within the Catholic church, passover, funerals
- examples of rights of intensification
- belief in impersonal forces, ex. mana (luck or fate)
- animatism
- belief in a omniscient, omnipotent and omnipresent god
- monotheistic
- gods and goddesses, ancestral spirits, animism, animatism
- four belief systems
- rain dances, confession within the Catholic church, passover, funerals
- examples of rights of intensification
- priests and priestesses, prophets, shamans
- religious leaders
- 3 phases: seperation, transition, incorporation (Arnold Van Gennep)
- rites of passage
- tend to be emphasized by agricultural societies, creates beings who are wholly different from humans. may be polytheistic or monotheistic
- gods and goddesses
- relgion deals with unconscious desires, repressed emotions, anxieties
- psychological aspects of religion
- common among foraging groups. all things contain a spirit: animals, trees, mountains, etc.
- animism
- speak on behalf of the supernatural to the people, undergo no training, based on personal charism, not always liked, not incorporated into social structure
- prophets
- belief in several deities who control nature and interact more with humans
- polytheistic
- part-time specialist who has a special talent. often act as healer and take clients and recieve payment for their services. similar to counsellors and psychologists
- shaman
- 3 phases: seperation, transition, incorporation (Arnold Van Gennep)
- rites of passage
- 100 000 years BP neanderthals buried their dead, 30 000 years BP upper Paleolithic cave paintings
- early examples
- full-time religious specialist, usually in agricultural or horticultural societies. represent the people before the supernatural beings, go through periods of training, cermonial and incorporated into the social structure
- priests and priestesses
- literally refers to a doorway, regarded as dangerous, the critical in-between phase
- Liminal state
- a return to order, maintainence of the balance, reflects the idea that something has gone wrong and needs to be put right. enforces people's ideas of values and norms in society
- rites of intensification
- plays a role in social reproduction, increases social solidarity, connects people to each other
- functionalist aspects of religion
- part-time specialist who has a special talent. often act as healer and take clients and recieve payment for their services. similar to counsellors and psychologists
- shaman
- full-time religious specialist, usually in agricultural or horticultural societies. represent the people before the supernatural beings, go through periods of training, cermonial and incorporated into the social structure
- priests and priestesses
- literally refers to a doorway, regarded as dangerous, the critical in-between phase
- Liminal state
- religion is a system of symbols that acts to establish moods and motivations by formulating a conception of an aura of factuality that makes the moods and motivations seem uniquely realistic
- symbolic aspects of religion