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Religion Belief and ritual concerned with supernatural beings, powers, and forces.
Communitas Intense feeling of social solidarity.
Polytheism Worship of multiple deities, who control aspects of nature.
Monotheism Worship of an eternal,omniscient,omnipotent,and omnipresent supreme being.
Mana Impersonal sacred force,so named in Melanesia and Polynesia.
Animism Belief in souls or doubles.
Taboo Sacred and forbidden; prohibition backed by supernatural sanctions.
Magic Use of supernatural techniques to accomplish specific ends.
Ritual Formal,repetitive,stereotyped behavior;based on a liturgical order.
Rites of Passage Rites marking transitions between places, or stages of life.
Liminality The in-between phase of a passage rite.
Cosmology A system, often religious, for imagining and understanding the universe.
Totem An animal,plant,or geographic feature associated with a specific social group,to which that totem is sacred or symbolically important.
Leveling Mechanism Custom that brings standouts back in line with community norms.
Shaman A part-time magico-religious practitioner.
Revitalization Movements Movements aimed at altering or revitalizing a society.
Syncretisms Cultural, especially religious, mixes, emerging from acculturation.
Cargo Cults Postcolonial, acculturative religious movements in Melanesia.
Antimodernism Rejecting the modern for a presumed earlier, purer, better way.
Fundamentalism Advocating strict fidelity to a religion's presumed founding principles.
Imitative Magic Produce a desired effect by imitating. If magicians wish to harm someone, they may imitate that effect on an image of the victim. Sticking pins in voodoo dolls for example.
Contagious Magic Whatever is done to an object is believed to affect to a person who once had contact with it. Sometimes practitioners of contagious magic use body products from prospective victims-their hair or nails for exmample. Eventually to reach the person.
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