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What two types of explanations are given 1. Synchronic
when humans try to make sense out of life? 2. Diachronic
What is synchronic? What sort of questions It is the snapshot stories of your life. It captures a moment in time and it answers
do they answer? questions about who we are.
- Being (component parts)
- Becoming (life cycle progress)
What are the 6 questions of meaning - Belonging (ongoing)
answered by synchronicity? - a Home (lineages, and land)
- Doing (vocation and value)
- Possessions (wealth)
What is diachronic? What answer does it It is a movie (the story) of history, it occurs over a time period (you can often see the
provide to? change).
- Biography (everyday stories of life)
What are the three to meaning questions
- Group History (larger story of human life)
that diachronic answers?
- Cosmic Drama (foundational stories)
- They assume it will disappear
How does Protestant Christianity respond - Superstitious
to animistic cultures? X4 - Excluded Middle
- Did not take it seriously
1. Does not give spiritual answers for everyday life.
How do traditional societies view
2. Encourages young people to reject and rebel against their family and culture.
Christianity? X3
3. Dishonors ancestors.
1. Blessings and oaths (spoken)
What are the four ways that folk religion 2. Merit (good works)
generate fortune? 3. Magic
4. Powers
What are blessings/oaths? Oaths are conditional curses directed towards oneself.
What is merit? the improvement of present and future well-being through actions.
What is magic? the use of supernatural forces to control events in life.
1. Geomancy (life - giving cosmic breath associated with best locations for houses,
What are the ways for positioning for temples, and graves. Determined by diviners).
positive powers? 2. Luck (fortune is influenced by certain objects - rocks, feathers - that bring good or
bad luck.
- Untimely births or deaths
- Natural calamities [hurricane/typhoon]
What types of things do people fear? X5 - Diseases [Pandemic]
- Failures
- Wars and Raids
What is aeromancy? observing the ripples in water
What is alectryomany? observing rosters in a circle
What is angang? seeing a person or animal on a journey
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RBS Final Exam WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS GRADED
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Terms in this set (45)
What two types of explanations are given 1. Synchronic
when humans try to make sense out of life? 2. Diachronic
What is synchronic? What sort of questions It is the snapshot stories of your life. It captures a moment in time and it answers
do they answer? questions about who we are.
- Being (component parts)
- Becoming (life cycle progress)
What are the 6 questions of meaning - Belonging (ongoing)
answered by synchronicity? - a Home (lineages, and land)
- Doing (vocation and value)
- Possessions (wealth)
What is diachronic? What answer does it It is a movie (the story) of history, it occurs over a time period (you can often see the
provide to? change).
- Biography (everyday stories of life)
What are the three to meaning questions
- Group History (larger story of human life)
that diachronic answers?
- Cosmic Drama (foundational stories)
- They assume it will disappear
How does Protestant Christianity respond - Superstitious
to animistic cultures? X4 - Excluded Middle
- Did not take it seriously
1. Does not give spiritual answers for everyday life.
How do traditional societies view
2. Encourages young people to reject and rebel against their family and culture.
Christianity? X3
3. Dishonors ancestors.
1. Blessings and oaths (spoken)
What are the four ways that folk religion 2. Merit (good works)
generate fortune? 3. Magic
4. Powers
What are blessings/oaths? Oaths are conditional curses directed towards oneself.
What is merit? the improvement of present and future well-being through actions.
What is magic? the use of supernatural forces to control events in life.
1. Geomancy (life - giving cosmic breath associated with best locations for houses,
What are the ways for positioning for temples, and graves. Determined by diviners).
positive powers? 2. Luck (fortune is influenced by certain objects - rocks, feathers - that bring good or
bad luck.
- Untimely births or deaths
- Natural calamities [hurricane/typhoon]
What types of things do people fear? X5 - Diseases [Pandemic]
- Failures
- Wars and Raids
What is aeromancy? observing the ripples in water
What is alectryomany? observing rosters in a circle
What is angang? seeing a person or animal on a journey
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