THE Anthropology Religion, Magic and Witchcraft Test Bank for Essentials of Cultural Anthr
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The Anthropology of Religion
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The Anthropology Of Religion
THE Anthropology Religion, Magic and
Witchcraft Test Bank for Essentials of
Cultural THE Anthropology Religion, Magic and
Witchcraft Test Bank for Essentials of
Cultural Anthr
THE Anthropology Religion, Magic and
Witchcraft Test Bank for Essentials of
Cultural Anthr
Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274): -
🖊🖊answer%🖍🖍Religion "denotes properly a
relation to God."
Sigmund Freud (1865-1939) Psychosocial
Approach: - 🖊🖊answer%🖍🖍Religion is neurosis,
an illusion, "born of the need to make tolerable the
helplessness of man, and built out of the material
offered by memories of the helplessness of his own
childhood and the childhood of the human race."
Karl Marx (1818-1883): Theoretical Approach -
🖊🖊answer%🖍🖍Religion is the sigh of the
oppressed creature, the sentiment of the heartless
world, the soul of soulless conditions. It is the
opium of the people.
Emile Durkheim (1858-1917): -
🖊🖊answer%🖍🖍He defined religion in terms of a
relation with society. He said that "the idea of
society is the soul of religion." Religion is "collective
,sentiments...fixing themselves upon external
objects."
Paul Tillich (1886-1962): -
🖊🖊answer%🖍🖍Religion is the state of being
grasped by something unconditional, holy,
absolute." "Religion is Ultimate Concern."
Victor Frankl (1905-???): - 🖊🖊answer%🖍🖍One
may also be justified in defining religion as man's
search for ultimate meaning.
Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947): -
🖊🖊answer%🖍🖍Religion is what the individual
does with his own solitariness; and if you were
never solitary, you were never religious.
Catherine Albanese: - 🖊🖊answer%🖍🖍"Religion
here can be understood as a system of symbols
(creed, code, cultus) by means of which people (a
community) orient themselves in the world with
reference to both ordinary and extraordinary
powers, meanings, and values." (p. 11)
Rudolf Otto (1869-1937): -
🖊🖊answer%🖍🖍"Desiring to give it [the essential
religious feeling] a name of its own, I propose to
call it 'creature-consciousness' or 'creature-feeling'.
,It is one emotion of a creature, abased and
overwhelmed by its own nothingness in contrast to
that which is supreme above all creatures."
James 1:27: - 🖊🖊answer%🖍🖍"Religion that is
pure and undefiled before God and the Father is
this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction,
and to keep oneself unstained from the world."
Ronald Cavanagh (1938-?): -
🖊🖊answer%🖍🖍Religion is the varied symbolic
expression of and appropriate response to that
which people deliberately affirm as being of
unrestricted value for them.
Ludwig Feuerbach (1804-1872): -
🖊🖊answer%🖍🖍"man is the beginning of religion,
the center of religion, the end of religion." Religion
"is the dream of the human spirit."
Charles Winquist (1944-2002): - 🖊🖊answer%🖍🖍A
very inclusive definition of religion is simply the
human response to moments of transcendence.
Agnosticism: - 🖊🖊answer%🖍🖍The idea that the
existence of a god is unknowable, that it is as
impossible to prove the nonexistence of the
supernatural as it is to prove its existence.
, Analytic definitions: - 🖊🖊answer%🖍🖍A definition
that focuses on the way religion manifests itself or
is expressed in a culture.
Animatism: (Robert Marett) - 🖊🖊answer%🖍🖍The
belief in an impersonal supernatural power.
Animism: - 🖊🖊answer%🖍🖍A belief in spirit beings
(gods, souls, ghosts, demons, etc.) defined by
Edward Burnett Tylor.
Anthropology: - 🖊🖊answer%🖍🖍The study of
humanity.
Anthropomorphic: - 🖊🖊answer%🖍🖍Nonhuman
entities that have human characteristics.
Archaeology: - 🖊🖊answer%🖍🖍The study of
prehistoric people from the analysis of their
physical and cultural remains.
Cognition: - 🖊🖊answer%🖍🖍The processes of the
human brain, including perception, attention,
learning, memory, concept formation, and problem
solving.
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