Exam 13: Religion

French sociologist Emile Durkheim developed the notion of a fundamental dichotomy between which of the following sets of ideas that has been used by anthropologists in examining religion?

Anthropologists typically conduct fieldwork as participants,living in and coexisting with those they study.Religion,as a set of beliefs about how the world ought to be,can be successfully studied because it is also

Catholicism is being rejuvenated in the United States as a result of

Victor Turner proposed that all humans experience a rite of passage and that such rites might appear in a variety of different contexts,not just in coming-of-age changes.In a similar fashion,we can understand the emergence of a particular type of religious practitioner after they pass through a rite of passage.Such a practitioner emerges as a

The upheaval brought about by the industrial revolution led to profound changes in the nature of production and labor,as well as the displacement of people as they sought out ways to make a living in the face of these changes.French sociologist Emile Durkheim observed all of this and recognized it as

Hindus venerate the cow (even when they create serious traffic hazards)in order to fully embrace the idea of ahimsa,the practice of nonviolence toward all living things.For a Hindu,then,the cow is much more than an animal with four legs,it is a vital

Which of the following is the first stage of rites of passage that involves the physical,psychological,or symbolic removal from the daily activities of the group,according to Victor Turner?

French sociologist Emile Durkheim argued that religion,particularly religious ritual,serves a crucial role in combating one's sense of anomie and in addressing larger social dynamics of alienation and dislocation.How did Durkheim define anomie,and what is a specific example of it in the world today? How does religious ritual help combat anomie? How does religious ritual address larger social dynamics of alienation and dislocation? How did these notions argued by Durkheim influence the anthropological approach to the study of religion?

One of the central tasks of anthropologists studying religion is to understand the religious sense of

Anthropologist Marvin Harris built upon Karl Marx's ideas,suggesting that what shapes the other components of a society are

Which of the following is considered a type of magic that involves performances that imitate the desired result,such as manipulating a doll?

Attention to local religious expressions complicates anthropologists' efforts to create

Anthropologist George Gmelch found that players who use a particular ritual,such as touching the bill of their cap every time they are up to bat,generally tend to believe that good magic is

The text describes the Muslim saint shrine of Husain Tekri and how people of many different faiths come to the shrine for healing rituals.The people who travel to the shrine are said to be

Talal Asad makes the case that rather than religion being a system of symbols,it is better understood as a

Most of us routinely trim our fingernails.The cuttings are tossed into the wastebasket and we don't usually give it much thought.If he were alive today,James Frazier might suggest that this is ignoring the possibility of

Which of the following is among the nineteenth- and twentieth-century philosophers who deeply influenced anthropological theories of religion?

In his work with Azande people,E.E.Evans-Pritchard found which of the following individuals are formally taught the knowledge of rituals and medicines and use that knowledge to thwart the work of a witch?

French ethnographer and folklorist Arnold van Gennep (1873-1957)was the first to theorize a category of ritual called "rites of passage." What are rites of passage,and what is an example of a rite of passage in your own cultural experience? How are rites of passage related to rituals and religion? Are there rites of passage in cultural groups that are not tied to religion? Provide an example.How do rites of passage affect the individual,and how do they affect the cultural group as a whole?

E.E.Evans-Pritchard conducted fieldwork among the Azande and rebuffed Weber's earlier assertion that science and modernization would lead to the decline of magic.A key part of Evans-Pritchard's work held that magic was in fact very