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StraighterlineReligion 101
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Religions manifest eight possible elements: belief
system, community, central myths, ritual, ethics,
characteristic emotional experiences, material
expression, and - answer Sacredness
The belief that all is divine is called - answer
pantheism
__________________ argues that the existence of God
cannot be proven. - answer Agnosticism
Anthropologist ___________ believed that religion
was rooted in spirit worship. - answer E. B. Tylor
,___________ theorized that belief in a God or gods
arises from the long-lasting impressions made on
adults by their childhood experiences. - answer
Sigmund Freud
Rudolf Otto argued that religions emerge when
people experience that aspect of reality which is
essentially mysterious; while ___________ believed
that religion was a noble human response to the
complexity and depth of reality. - answer Carl
Gustav Jung
Religions express truth ___________. For example,
water can represent spiritual cleansing; the sun,
health; a mountain, strength; and a circle, eternity.
- answer symbolically
In early religions, the most significant female deity
was particularly associated with ___________ and
motherhood and has been known by many names,
such as Asherah, Aphrodite, and Freia. - answer
fertility
When we look at the world's dominant religions,
we see three basic orientations in their
conceptions and location of the sacred:
,sacramental, prophetic, and ___________. - answer
mystical
As an academic discipline, the field of religious
studies is now more than ___________ years old. -
answer 200
Although there is no agreement on how to speak of
ancient religious ways, they are often inadequately
referred to as traditional, aboriginal, indigenous,
tribal, ___________, primal, native, oral, and basic. -
answer nonliterate
Indigenous religions exist generally within
___________ cultures, in which every object and act
may have religious meaning. - answer holistic
In many Native American religious traditions, there
is little distinction between the human and animal
worlds. These native religions see everything in
the universe as being alive, a concept known as
___________. - answer animism
Sacred time is "the time of ___________." Among the
Koyukon people of the Arctic, it is called "distant
time," and it is the holy ancient past in which gods
lived and worked. Among Australian Aborigines it
is often called Dreamtime, and it is the subject of
, much of their highly esteemed art. - answer
eternity
___________ is the doorway through which the "other
world" of gods and ancestors can contact us and
we can contact them. It is associated with the
center of the universe and can be constructed,
often in a symbolic shape such as a circle or
square. - answer Sacred space
Most indigenous religions have cosmic tales of
their ___________. They frequently speak of a High
God and make little distinction between a god and
an ancestor. - answer origins
In native societies, everyday religious activity and
practice are significant, because their primary
purpose is often to place individuals, families, and
groups in "right ___________" with gods, ancestors,
other human beings, and nature. - answer
relationships
Special rituals mark a person's entry into
adulthood. In Native American religions, a common
ritual of early maturity is the "vision quest," or
"___________." - answer dream quest
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