Midterm Review 1
An animal or symbol that represents a tribe or people group.
Totem
Concept that spirits or gods animate the physical world.
Animism
The view that phenomena like cultures and languages can be viewed and analyzed as systems of signs and the relationships of elements to one another.
Structuralism.
Three "post-structuralist" thinkers.
Varies.
Name of the era roughly corresponding with the enlightenment until its post-[] version today.
Modernity
Latin root for the term "religion"
Religio
Term for the study of systems of symbols
Semiotics
Philosophical/theoretical idea that language, for instance, is not a transparent medium that connects directly to one idea.
poststructuralism
Thinker who came up with "différance"
Catchall name to sumamrize a variety of critical theoretical approaches that see society as socially constructed.
Social constructionism
The two "Collective" terms used by Emile Durkheim
Collective Consciousness
Colelctive Effervescence
Something that is vernerated, respected, or feared is called _________, an indigenous term often translated as "Sacred."
Taboo
postcolonialism
Poststructuralist thinker who conceptualized "Genealogies of Knowledge" and the "Episteme"
Michel Foucault
Concept by thinker Pierre Bourdieu that points to "structuring structures" and the arbitrarily constructed nature of hierarchies we assume as reality in our daily lives.
"Habitus"
_____________ approaches developed in other disciplines during the 18th-19th centuries introduced a temporal/diachronic aspect to the essentialist study of religion.
evolutionary
Model that sees religion defined broadly with a series of traits present in each.
Family Resemblance Model
Part 1: Post-structuralist thinker who came up with "orientalism"
Part 2: What would the hypothetical the opposite of "orientalism" be?
Edward Said
"occidentalism"
________________ is a new(ish) concept emerging and growing over the last 20-30 years that problematizes definitions of "religion" in popular disocurse. It forces us to distinguish between structures of religion and inner experience/beliefs in a (very American/indiviudalist) new manner.
"spiritual but not religious"
1. James G. Frazier coined the term "________________ Magic" that was split into contagious and immitative varieties.
2. This was applied especially to _____________ religions.
1. "Sympathetic"
2. "Primitive/Ancient"
Aspect of religion that is physically practiced, complicating older definitions of religion that focus solely on beliefs and social structures. Name it AND two examples.
embodiment
Binary categories that function to order the universe.
Sacred and Profane
Poststructuralist concept _______________ that focuses on multiplicity, decentrality, and "non-arborescent" models of knowledge influential for ideas like "orientalism" and in postcolonial studies coined by _____________.
Rhizome
Gilles Deleuze (and Felix Guattari)
______________ as a broader discipline foregoes the idea of the anthropod as an implicitly superior subject of study. This stems from poststructuralist schoalrship.
It is a movement beyond ______________, which began in the 13th century during the Renaissance and could be seen as either an ethical/moral framework, leftist political positions, or even atheism.
post-humanism
humanism
Distinguish between "realism" "critical realism" "non-realism" and "Relativism"
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