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Religious Responses
Religious Responses
Religious Responses
Indigenous Sacred Ways
Indigenous Sacred Ways
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This is not the denial of the divine, but the feeling, "I don't know whether it exists or not." Exclusivism, Agnosticism, Awakening
What is Agnosticism
100
Extended metaphors--narratives that use concrete symbols to convey abstract ideas, are known as Secularism, Allegories, Gnosis
What is allegories
100
True or False: Most institutionalized religions are patriarchal.
True
100
We are known as descendants of the original inhabitants of lands now controlled by larger political systems. We now have little influence, and we comprise at least 4%of the world's population. We still follow local sacred ways handed down from our remote ancestors and have adapted to contemporary circumstances. Transplants, Indigenous peoples
What is indigenous peoples
100
The examples below pertain to what Negative: Near extinction due to colonization and conversion Positive: Assisted in expanding them across the globe
What is Globalization
200
When actions are predictable and repeated rather than spontaneous, they are known as Secularism, Transcendent, Rituals
What is rituals
200
Symbolic stories that communities use to explain the universe and their place within it Myths, Creationism, Intelligent Design
What is myths
200
What is a personal response to dimensions of life that are considered sacred. It does not have to occur within an institution, and is associated with experiences, beliefs, and values. Dreamland, LifeForce, Spirituality
What is spirituality
200
This is an indigenous spirituality, an approach to all life. It is an entire approach to living in which sacred and secular are not separate. Vision quest or Lifeway
What is lifeway
200
How did/do indigenous peoples practice and pass down their traditions?
What is: Practiced in silence Passed them down orally
300
The belief there is no deity. Agnosticism, Atheism, Monotheism
What is Atheism
300
People who interpret their faith and traditions by a historical form of their religion, strictly following its established practices, laws and creeds are known as: Absolutists, Fundamentalism, Orthodox
What is Orthodox
300
This gained prominence as a theory to explain that religion can be found in some form in every culture around the world. The materialistic point of view is that the supernatural is imagined by humans; only the material world exists. The Communist Manifesto or Scientific Materialism
What is Scientific Materialism
300
The timeless time of Creation, according to Australian aboriginal belief. Vision Quest or Dreamtime
What is Dreamtime
300
Communication is left to those that are believed to be specially trained to observe certain kinds of worship and offer prayers; also, storytelling and other sacred roles, as well as mystical intermediaries. Orisa or Shaman
What is Shaman
400
Images borrowed from the material world that are similar to ineffable spiritual experiences. Rituals, Allegory, Symbols
What is symbols
400
People who resist contemporary influences and affirm what they perceive as the historical core of the religion: Absolutists, Fundamentalism, Orthodox
What is Absolutists
400
Religion may be a creed or belief in the division between what is secular and what is sacred, and it may or may not exist institutionally. True or False
What is True
400
This is a symbol of unity among parts of sacred reality. It has no beginning and no end.
What is a circle
400
Method an indigenous person uses to connect to the spirit world Vision Quest or Dreamtime
What is Vision Quest
500
Because Father or Mother is thought to be the source of life, sustenance, and protection, they are symbolized as: Unseen Reality, or LifeForce?
What is Unseen Reality
500
People who often apply selective insistences on parts of a religious tradition and to highly negative views of people of other religions: Absolutists, Fundamentalism, Orthodox
What is Fundamentalism
500
The acceptance that truth may be found in all religions. Universalism or Secularism
What is Universalism
500
Use of therapeutic herbs, Sweatbathing, Massages, Cauterization and Physically sucking out toxins are examples of what?
What is healing techniques used by a shaman or medicine person
500
Loss of land Loss of languages Loss of traditional spiritual wisdom Outsiders have destroyed nature Loss of training / instruction in local communities Local spiritual traditions have been depreciated and curbed by global religions Loss of indigenous ways by bringing salvation, as defined by the invasive peoples, by different pathways to the divine. These are examples of
What is Globalization gone wrong