Chapter 12 Questions and Answers

Chapter 12 Questions and Answers What is the key to Wallace's definition of religion? Multiple choice question. Wallace focuses on the distinction between the sacred and the profane. Wallace focuses on groups of people—congregants—who gather together for worship. Wallace focuses on the way religion provides instruments of social control. Wallace focuses on beliefs and rituals concerned with supernatural beings, powers, and forces. Wallace focuses on beliefs and rituals concerned with supernatural beings, powers, and forces. For _____, the "sacred" was a domain set off from the ordinary, or the mundane (profane). Multiple choice question. Durkheim Malinowski Turner Wallace Durkheim Previous Play Next Rewind 10 seconds Move forward 10 seconds Unmute 0:00 / 0:15 Full screen Brainpower Read More What is animism? Multiple choice question. the trance state of a shaman who is about to enter the supernatural world a belief in multiple gods a belief in spiritual beings; the earliest form of religion, according to Tylor a belief in a sacred impersonal force permeating the universe, residing in people, animals, plants, and objects a belief in spiritual beings; the earliest form of religion, according to Tylor Who asserted that the basic building block of all religious thought and ritual was a belief in the soul? Multiple choice question. Bronislaw Malinowski Victor Turner Sir Edward Burnett Tylor Émile Durkheim Sir Edward Burnett Tylor What is the term for a type of religion that worships one single god? Multiple choice question. polarization mechanization polytheism monotheism monotheism Who offered a definition of religion that focused on belief and ritual concerned with supernatural forces and beings? Multiple choice question. Victor Turner Anthony Wallace Sir E. B. Tylor Émile Durkheim Anthony Wallace Which of the following statements best summarizes how Durkheim's approach to religion differed from that taken by Wallace? Multiple choice question. Durkheim focused on the belief in the soul as the basic building block of all religious thought. Durkheim focused on beings, powers, and forces within the supernatural realm. Durkheim stressed the collective, social, and shared nature of religion, the meanings it embodies, and the emotions it generates. Durkheim proposed an evolutionary scheme of stages through which societies progress from "paganism" to Christianity. Durkheim stressed the collective, social, and shared nature of religion, the meanings it embodies, and the emotions it generates. What is the term for the earliest form of religion, a belief in spiritual beings or souls found in all things? Multiple choice question. animism deism spiritualism polytheism animism What did Sir E. B. Tylor suggest was the origin of religion? Multiple choice question. worship of an eternal supreme being dreaming, sleep, and trance, which led to a belief in souls fear of nature worship of multiple deities dreaming, sleep, and trance, which led to a belief in souls What are the evolutionary stages of religion proposed by Tylor, listed in order from the simplest and earliest to the most complex? Multiple choice question. polytheism, animism, and monotheism magic, superstition, and science monotheism, polytheism, and shamanism animism, polytheism, and monotheism animism, polytheism, and monotheism The concept of mana is used to explain Multiple choice question. the difference between "religion" and "a religion." why some people seem to be more fortunate than others. the ability of a shaman to be possessed by the spirit of an animal or ancestor. the belief that trees and animals have souls. why some people seem to be more fortunate than others. What is the key to Wallace's definition of religion? Multiple choice question. Wallace focuses on the distinction between the sacred and the profane. Wallace focuses on beliefs and rituals concerned with supernatural beings, powers, and forces. Wallace focuses on the way religion provides instruments of social control. Wallace focuses on groups of people—congregants—who gather together for worship. Wallace focuses on beliefs and rituals concerned with supernatural beings, powers, and forces. Ordinary Polynesians had to undergo purification rites if they were accidentally exposed to nobility or nobles' possessions. This was because those persons and possessions were ______, or sacred and forbidden. Multiple choice question. magic animist taboo contagious taboo What term refers to the manipulation of the supernatural to accomplish specific goals? Multiple choice question. religion animism mana magic magic What is mana? Multiple choice question. an impersonal supernatural power that may reside in people, animals, plants, and objects—like our modern notion of luck a Hindu principle of nonviolence that forbids the killing of animals a dangerous sacred power, off-limits to ordinary people, that becomes associated with objects used by divine rulers a spirit double attached to people or any living thing an impersonal supernatural power that may reside in people, animals, plants, and objects—like our modern notion of luck