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What is rite of passage?
A common ritual of native traditions shown in the video on Aborigines of Australia, when the young girl was painted in white to symbolize purity and her transition into womanhood.
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What are shamans?
men or women who are believed to be special people who possess great power and knowledge that allows them to interact with spirits and the spirit world
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What is preliterate?
This common characteristic of native traditions describes a society or culture that has not developed the use of writing.
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What is nature?
Usually respected to the point of being worshiped with animals spoken of as "brothers" and "sisters"
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What are rituals?
Actions often repeated in well-known ways that help to give order and meaning to life.
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What is Dakota Access?
The name of the pipeline that was protested last year by over 100 tribes from across North America.
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What is ignoring/disrespecting the spirits?
Most native religions believe the result of doing this will be to bring disaster upon the people.
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What is not uniform in type?
This common characteristic explains why we are unable to describe a specific set of standard characteristics and practices when studying native religions.
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What are rite of passage rituals?
Graduations, funerals, and bar/bat mitzvah's are all examples. (BE SPECIFIC)
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What are rites of passage rituals?
Rituals that mark the transition from one state in life to another
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What is primal religion?
In class, this two word term was defined by the narrator of the ritual clip as “not available for export”
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What is they are key to the development of all modern religions?
One of the three reasons why primal religions are called primal that best explains why they are important to study in a world religions course
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What is stress/emphasize ritual?
This typical worship practice is relied on for the passing of tradition.
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What is win the favor of spirits?
Instead of a system of gods, most native religions focus their daily lives on trying to do this.
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What are myths?
As a result of being typically preliterate, native religions recounted these while rituals were being performed to pass tradition along.
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What is the sacrifice of the chicken?
By doing this the people of the Indonesian village pledged for the purity off their village; acts as almost as going under oath in court.
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What is some are still active today?
Although not a reason Primal religions are called Primal, this fact is important to remember.
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What is tobacco?
Mr. Barry discussed how this was offered to the spirits during his experience in a sweat lodge and is considered sacred.
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What is "initiation into adulthood" and "death proceedings/rites"?
The two rituals which are usually of most importance to native religions.
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What are shamans?
These people can enlist the help of the spirits to ask for game or good weather for the community or cure them when they are ill
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What is particular to a specific location/not available for export?
The common characteristic which best explains the speaker's strong connection to the sacred land of her people and requiring her to be there in order to be "spiritually whole"
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What is "Grandfathers"?
A term used by some Native American Indians for the rocks used in a traditional sweat lodge (Mr. Barry's Discussion)
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What is "secular"?
The term meaning, "non-religious" and discussed in the context of Rites of passage examples
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What is liminal?
the Latin term which describes the "threshold" focused on during rites of passage rituals and means a time full of uncertainty.
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What is "Offer a form of morality"?
The fourth function of myths according to our class notes which is missing from:
1. Serve as a kind of “science” 2. Legitimating the order of things 3. Allows people and successive generations to live with confidence |