| front |
back |
revisions |
lasted changed by |
history |
Spiro provided us w/ a ______ definition of religion.
Karl Marx provided a ________ def.
Emile Dirkheim: |
substantive
functional
functional |
0 |
rlgray Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:29:52 GMT |
 |
| belief of multiple gods: |
polytheistic faiths |
0 |
rlgray Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:29:52 GMT |
|
| the imposition of order by humans on every day events so that events seem more predictable and stable: |
nomos |
0 |
rlgray Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:37:53 GMT |
|
| 2 distinct terms that all known religious beliefs translate into: |
profane
sacred |
0 |
rlgray Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:36:11 GMT |
|
Durkheim: beliefs are what we _______.
rituals are determined modes of _______. |
think
action |
0 |
rlgray Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:36:11 GMT |
|
| Durkheim: 2 key elements of religion: |
belief
ritual |
0 |
rlgray Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:36:11 GMT |
|
| Key functions that religion serves(3): |
comfort/quells dissatifaction
strengthens community
assures followers of larger cosmic order |
0 |
rlgray Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:36:11 GMT |
|
| Religious groups are essentially "________________". |
comunities of memory |
0 |
rlgray Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:36:11 GMT |
|
| are religious specialists who have undergone an intese encouter with sacred forces and emerged with special powers to effect good or evil on behalf of the rest of the group: |
shamans |
0 |
rlgray Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:36:11 GMT |
|
| Religious experience refers to all the individual's __________ involvement with the sacred. |
subjective |
0 |
rlgray Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:36:11 GMT |
|
| The content of an act is not what makes uit a ritual act; rather it is the _______ meaning attached to the act by participants. |
symbolic |
0 |
rlgray Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:36:11 GMT |
|
Ritual helps generate ___________ conviction.
Ritual is an effective way of transforming ______ and ______. |
religious
space and time |
0 |
rlgray Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:36:11 GMT |
|
| _______ consists of symbolic actions that represent religious meanings. |
Ritual |
0 |
rlgray Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:36:11 GMT |
|
| ________, one form of religious belief, are paraigms of human existence. |
Myths |
0 |
rlgray Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:36:11 GMT |
|
| Every religion has an essential ________. |
cognitive aspect |
0 |
rlgray Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:36:11 GMT |
|
| words and gestures: |
symbols |
0 |
rlgray Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:36:11 GMT |
|
| common core of beliefs, values, and commitments: |
cultural integration |
0 |
rlgray Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:36:11 GMT |
|
| The primary advantage of a functionalist definitional straegy is its _________. |
breadth |
0 |
rlgray Wed, 25 Aug 2010 13:41:36 GMT |
|
| One distinction used in many functional definitions is the social attribution of the ________. |
sacred |
0 |
rlgray Tue, 24 Aug 2010 20:07:33 GMT |
|
| Geertz: People interpret events and experiences as meaningful by linking them w/ a larger sense of ______. |
order |
0 |
rlgray Tue, 24 Aug 2010 19:56:34 GMT |
|
| Distinguishing features of functional definition are the "________ of a general _______ of existance" and their ________. |
concept
order
realism |
0 |
rlgray Tue, 24 Aug 2010 19:56:34 GMT |
|
| As a definitional strategy, substantive definitions have advantages: more _____ and _______. |
more specific and amendable |
0 |
rlgray Tue, 24 Aug 2010 19:56:34 GMT |
|
Substantive definitions have difficulty accounting for religious _________.
Sub. def are sometimes __________ neat. |
change
deceptively neat |
1 |
rlgray Thu, 02 Sep 2010 13:11:41 GMT |
|
| Substantive definitions are more _______ than functional ones. |
specific |
1 |
rlgray Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:07:53 GMT |
|
| ________ is one of the most important concepts in the sociology of religion. |
Power |
0 |
rlgray Mon, 23 Aug 2010 16:11:05 GMT |
|
| boundaries around what one should believe or practice in order to be 'one of us': |
orthodoxy |
0 |
rlgray Mon, 23 Aug 2010 16:04:24 GMT |
|
| a people settled far from their ancestral homelands: |
a church in diaspora |
0 |
rlgray Mon, 23 Aug 2010 16:04:24 GMT |
|
| 2 major strategies used by sociologist of religion: |
substantive definitions
functional definitions |
0 |
rlgray Mon, 23 Aug 2010 16:04:24 GMT |
|
| describes what religion does: |
functional definitions |
0 |
rlgray Mon, 23 Aug 2010 16:04:24 GMT |
|
| tries to establish what religion is: |
substantive definitions |
0 |
rlgray Mon, 23 Aug 2010 16:04:24 GMT |
|
