Chapter 1-3 review
Term for west African spirits
Bori
In Wovokas teachings and visions
Both the creator told him that the ancestors would rise up and if enough people believed and dance, human misery and death would end
The American Indian religious freedom act
A US law aimed at guaranteeing freedom of religious practice for Native Americans
The 1819 civilization fund act
Aim to educate native children in an effort to civilize them and lead to the development of many boarding schools
What happened at wounded knee
American troops massacred hundreds of people who had gathered for the ghost dance
High god of the Dogan people
Amma
Term for the center of the world where the earth and the heavens connect
Axis mundi
New world religion with the roots in west Africa, which is prominent in Brazil
Candomble
The world religion that most emphasizes doctrines is
Christianity
Among the many examples of a place of special significance established by a hierophany is
Christianity's church of the nativity, Islam sacred city of Mecca, and Buddhism's bodh gaya , sight of Gautamas foundational experience of enlightenment
Dogan right of passage marking the transition to adulthood into the afterlife
Dama
Rudolph Ottos the idea of the holy
Describes the encounter with the holy as numinous
Attempt to learn about events that will happen in the future through supernatural means
Divination
Religious scholar Ninian smarts dimensional scheme divides the various aspects of religious tradition into seven dimensions, which include
Doctrinal and ritual
Sacred structure of pueblo peoples
Hogan
Ancestors of the Navajo people, described mythic narratives
Holy people
Religion functions in an unhealthy manner as an opiate that deters the suffering individual from attending to the true cause of affliction, according to
Karl Marx
Myths may contain lessons concerning
Life and death, how to farm, and how to behave appropriately
Mount Shasta is a sacred place to
Many Native American communities in northern California
According to the popol vuh, the creators were not able to successfully craft human beings until they
Mix corn meal with water
The belief that all reality is ultimately one
Monism
Believe in only one God
Monotheism
Young man in Samburu or Maasai culture who has been circumcised and death has special cultural and religious duties
Moran
A story or narrative, originally conveyed orally, that sets forth the basic truths of a religious tradition
Myth
Sand painting has been used as a healing right by
Navajo peoples
a religion that maintains believe in God or Gods
Theistic
Why do some native Americans criticize the interest of non-native people in indigenous religions
They take practices out of cultural and historical context and there is sometimes conflict over the use of sacred places
Typical conical structure of the tribes of the great plains which is often constructed with a sacred blueprint
Tipi
Category for whatever is perceived as being beyond the normal or mundane sphere of things, whether understood as external or as within the individual or world
Transcendence
The category sometimes integral to definitions of religion that suggest a supra ordinary realm or experience is
Transcendence
Figure in North American mythologies, these tales often teach important wall lessons
Trickster
where do we find influences of african religion in the americas
US, brazil, cuba
Freud was an atheist whose psychological theory held religion to be
Undesirable, arising from the Oedipus complex, and a neurosis
Shift of population centers from rural, agricultural settings to cities
Urbanization
Native American religions are
Very diverse
New world religion with roots in west Africa, prominent in Haiti and the Haitian diaspora
Voodoo
Capacity for seeing things from another perspective, and an important methodological approach for studying religions
Empathy
Efforts to define religion that have continued to the present day were launch by the European enlightenment impulse towards categorically separating religion, coupled with
European exploration of distant lands and they're unfamiliar religions
Who was Wovoka
Founder of the second ghost dance
Religious resistant movements in 1870 and 1890 that originated in Nevada among Paiute peoples
Ghost dance
Linking and inter-mixing of cultures
Globalization
Belief that acknowledges a plurality of gods but elevates one of them to special status
Henotheism
Mabel McKay was well known for
Her skill and healing the sick and skill in basketry
which of the following is true about spirit possession
people communicate with spirits through the possessed person and women are more often likely to become possessed than men
who is oshun
an orisa in the yoruba religion
what is the best general definition of sacrifice in african context
dedication of something valuable to a spiritual being
Leader of the maji maji rebellion in tanganyika
kinjiketele
which of the following is not a way of communicating with the spirit world
reciting myths
Who was black elk
A famous Lakota religious leader
Myth is understood by the academic field of religious studies as
A powerful account of sacred truth
Renewal ritual of Yurok people
Jump dance
Some non-theistic religions assume the existence of divine beings while rejecting the notion that such beings can truly help humans find spiritual fulfillment, an example is
Buddhism
Pueblo spiritual beings
Kachina
Understanding of the nature of the world that typically explains its origin and how it is ordered
Cosmology
Divination system of the Yoruba religion, believed to be revealed to humanity by the gods
Ifa
This so-called golden rule set forth in the Christian New Testament
Is proclaimed in similar forms in the Scriptures of virtually all of the worlds major traditions
Which of the following is not typical of religious revelation
It is brought about through prayer on the part of a congregation of worshipers
the independent yoruba christian church known as the aladura church was founded by
Josiah Oshitelu
Aztec God and important cultural hero in Mexico
Quetzalcoatl
Lesser deities Yoruba in religion
Orisa
Yoruba goddess
Oshun
The Protestant theologian whose definition of religion connects it to a focus on mans spiritual life and refers to it as ultimate concern is
Paul Tillich
The expression of the divine will, commonly recorded in sacred texts
Revelation
Rituals that Mark the transition from one social stage to another
Rites of passage
Rituals that seek to enhance natural processes like rain or fertility, or enhance the solidarity of a group
Rites of renewal
The essential teachings of Native American religions are often found in
Sacred narratives or myths
This is not true of spiritual fulfillment
Spiritual fulfillment is always thought to be achievable in this lifetime
Ancient Greek and Roman pantheistic religious philosophy
Stoicism
Midsummer ritual common to many Native American religions, details very across cultures
Sundance
For the academic study of religion, as opposed to doing the religion or being religious,
Supernatural beings and events normally are held to be beyond its reach
Ninian smarts material dimension of religion involves
The place of artistic creations and natural entities in religious traditions
Which of the following is not true of the kinaalda
The right enacts important Lakota myths
When the Spanish conquistadors arrived in Mesoamerica
Written version of holy text were burned, Maya were forcibly converted to Roman Catholicism, and indigenous religion of the Mayan peoples was banned
Term for spirits in East Africa
Zar
what is ifa
a divination system among the yoruba
the yoruba religion
has a large and complex pantheon
african myths or sacred narratives are concerned primarily with
humanity and life in the present world
the beliefs and teachings of african religions are found primarily
in myths or sacred narratives
a person who has become possessed is known as a
medium
among the dinka, death is explained as the result of
the anger of the first woman, who was greedy
african religions originally spread to the america through
the atlantic slave trade
divination is
the attempt to predict the future through supernatural agents or powers
myths are not false; rather they are
the narratives we tell ourselves about our origins and ourselves
western scholars have traditionally used the term witchcraft to describe
the use of supernatural powers to cause misfortune