Religious Movements
Christianity lacked this, which caused the Romans to label it as superstition
What is age?
This term describes repeated, symbolic actions that both express and create realities, central to many courses' readings
What is ritual?
Malinowski railed against “armchair anthropology,” and believed that this was an essential requirement of the discipline
What is fieldwork? (alt. What is “participant observation?”)
This anthropologist described people in transitional moments as "betwixt and between" in the ritual process
Who is Victor Turner?
This text provides a survey in the form of ridiculous leading questions about pagan activity
What is the Decretum?
This group (an umbrella term) defined religion as belief, eschewing the importance of physical rites and traditions
What is Protestantism?
Meyer and Turner suggest this phrase as an alternative to “magic” or “religion”
What is "ritual power?"
He argued that religion can be distinguished from magic by the lack of a central "church" and a community
Who is Émile Durkheim?
According to Durkheim, this thing can never be eligible to be set apart as “sacred”
What is nothing?
Frazer posited the “secularization thesis,” that science had replaced religion as a means of knowing, in this text
What is The Golden Bough?
This is a nickname for the region of western New York most affected by the Second Great Awakening
What is the Burned-Over District?
Faye Harrison invokes this Twi word, meaning “to go back and get,” in her quest to “decolonize anthropology.”
What is Sankofa?
This scholar defined religion as a system involving community, practices, discourse, and institutions, not just inner belief
Who is Bruce Lincoln?
This anthropologist documented Brazilian Spiritist healer-mediums who cut into patients’ flesh with scalpels, scissors, and even rotary saws, often without anesthesia or antisepsis
Who is Sidney M. Greenfield?
This text was the first to distinguish between archaeology and genealogy
What is Discipline and Punish?
The course description says that “magic” and “religion” were shaped largely within this religious tradition’s history
What is Christianity?
These are created through the application of discipline
What are docile bodies?
He argued that the line between magic, religion, and science reflects who has social power
Who is Michel Foucault?
The course description notes that “magic” and “religion” were shaped partly in contrast to societies encountered during this era of overseas expansion
What is the European colonial period?
This theorist argued in Purity and Danger that ideas of pollution and taboo help maintain social boundaries
Who is Mary Douglas?