Practice Quiz Chapter 11

. The religious practice of inducing an ecstatic spiritual state through physical manipulation is labelled under Anthony Wallace's scheme as ________.

. According to Anthony Wallace's scheme, the idea that superhuman power lies inside certain objects or people and can be transferred from one to another is known as ________.

. The Huichol peyote hunt ________.

. According to the Azande of central Africa, witchcraft ________.

. The modern secular state ________.

. ________ is the relationship that links all of the parts of a semantic domain to one another.

. The definition of religion ________.

. ________ is a set of beliefs and practices designed to control the visible or invisible world for specific purposes.

. According to cultural anthropologist Sherry Ortner, ________ symbols represent the whole semantic domain and invite us to consider the various elements within it.

. ________ metaphors are symbolic representations that are widely understood within a culture and central to that culture's world view.

. ________ refers to a form of language and thought that asserts a meaningful link between the two expressions from different semantic domains.

. ________ describes the relationship that links all of the parts of a semantic domain to one another.

. ________ is the component of communication that stands for something else.

. Comparing the human brain to a computer is to use a/an ________ metaphor.

. While religions may vary, most religious ideas and practices are ________ ideas and practices.

. Religion universally emphasizes both ________ and ________.

. People or things that must not be touched are called ________ under Anthony Wallace's religious categories of behaviour.

. A religious practitioner that has the ability to contact invisible powers directly on behalf of individuals or groups is known as a ________.

. Cultural change that results from contact between differing cultures is known as ________.

. Under the religious ideology of the Huichol three sacred substances fit together into a mutually dependent sacred system. These three substances are ________.

. Among the Azande, guilt or innocence of witchcraft accusations is determined by a/an ________.

. A conscious, deliberate, and organized attempt by members of a society to create a more satisfying culture in a time of crisis is known as ________.

. The conscious separation of religion and state is known as ________.

. Shamans are potentially dangerous figures because of their direct connection to spiritual or cosmic powers.

. Syncretism is always the result of resistance against imposed ideas.

. Only those who hold power are able to impose world views on society.

. Secularism is the inevitable outcome of cultural evolution.

. According to Talal Asad, orthopraxy requires the support and commitment of a like-minded community.

. Metaphorical entailments are derived from the metaphorical predicate.

. According to Sherry Ortner, elaborating symbols represent an entire semantic domain.

. Personification—attributing human characteristics to non-human entities—is a form of societal metaphors.

. The Protestant Reformation is an example of syncretism.

. Priests have the power to contact invisible powers directly on behalf of individuals or groups.

. Nativism is the rejection of traditional beliefs.

. Oracles are invisible forces to which people address questions and whose responses they believe to be truthful.

. Today, most religions incorporate an almost entirely secular worldview.

. During the 1980s the French government took measures against female Muslim students wearing headscarves in school.

. By using a metaphor one can express a single precise meaning confined to one domain.

. Ortner believes that summarizing symbols represent whole semantic domains and invite us to consider the various elements within it.

. Organic metaphors are metaphors that are drawn from plants and animals that exist undisturbed in nature.

. Religion always requires that we believe in one supreme supernatural creator entity.

. The activities of priests and shamans are distinct and not interchangeable.

. For the Huichol religious devotion includes the ingestion of hallucinogenic cactus.

. Witchcraft among the Azande can be retracted if the accused witch sprays water over a chicken wing to cool the witchcraft.

. Nativism is all about turning away from older ways and religious beliefs.

. Revitalization is about improving one's culture by completely adopting another culture's religious system.

. The idea of secularism is a product of the European enlightenment.

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