Exam 12: Religion

Like ethnicity and language, religion is associated with social divisions within and between societies and nations.

Émile Durkheim, an early scholar of religion, stressed what he termed religious effervescence.Anthropologists too have stressed the collective, social, shared, and enacted nature of religion, the emotions it generates, and the meanings it embodies.

Worldwide, Islam is growing at a rate of about 2.9 percent annually, versus 2.3 percent for Christianity.

To Kottak, the widespread U.S.belief that recreation and religion are separate domains is both ethnocentric and false.Further, it may be taking the "fun" out of religion.

According to Victor Turner, all rites of passage have three phases: separation, liminality, and incorporation.Of these three, the liminal phase-which is the most interesting-is typically characterized by

Like Catholicism, Pentecostalism is egalitarian, and adherents need no special education to preach or run a church.

In Melanesia, mana is an essential sacred life force that resides in people, animals, plants, and objects.