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Beliefs, myths, dogmas, and legends are either representations or systems of representations which express the nature of these...
What is the sacred?
100
This theorist argues for the oppositional reality of religion and magic.
Who is Emile Durkheim?
100
This is the world axis, the place at which the creation of the world began.
What is Eliade's concept of the "center"?
100
According to Durkheim, the sacredness of bones and hair as well as the idea of the devil as a fallen god clarifies this relationship.
What is the connection between religion and magic?
100
When Durkheim argues that "A religion is a unified system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things, that is to say, things set apart and forbidden--beliefs and practices which unite into one single moral community called a Church, all those who adhere to them," he is distinguishing religion from this.
What is magic?
200
The dramatization of a ritual event and a major means of social integration, according to Goethals.
What is ritual ACTION!
200
This theorist argues that creation, the gods, and absolute reality serve as models for human action.
Who is Mircea Eliade?
200
According to Davis-Floyd, the primary purpose of rituals is to enact and transmit this into the emotions, bodies and minds of their participants.
What is a belief system?
200
According to Davis-Floyd, being placed into a wheelchair when one enters a hospital is an example of this.
What is symbolism?
200
"The interpretation of ritual is risky business; each of us will see different meanings in family symbolism and action, influenced by our own gender, our ethnic heritages, our political ideologies, our family experiences, and many other factors" is an admonition to therapists to avoid attempting to do this.
What is "editing" any family ritual without understanding how such ritual fits into the family's larger cultural context and meaning system.
300
Enacted in ritual, these ways of knowing and mediating truths about reality are frequently interpreted as fantasy.
What is myth?
300
These theorists argue that ritualized consumption activities construct, as well as reflect, culture.
Who are Melanie Wallendorf & Eric Arnould?
300
Laird argues that rituals, as a potent socialization mechanism, are nonetheless rooted in issues of this and this.
What is power and authority?
300
MacAloon argues that the lighting of the sacred flame at Archaia Olympia and its relay to the "New Olympia" can be ritually defined as these, which connect to a concept articulated by Victor Turner.
What is a rite of separation within a rite of passage, similar to the concept of liminality?
300
"Ritual...includes a structured set of actions developed collaboratively by the therapist and client to effect" this.
What is a change from one psychological state to another?
400
According to Laird, this is a social construction, defined and shaped over time in particular political, historical, and sociocultural contexts.
What is gender?
400
According to this theorist, many rituals, particularly intitiation rites and other rites of passage, are very directly concerned with definitions of power and status as well as definitions of gender identity and social role.
Who is Joan Laird?
400
If ritual is rooted in a propensity for order, rhythmic patterning and play, then, according to Goethals, the second concept of ritual has this.
What is a presupposition of a mystical or supernatural dimension?
400
By recounting stories of a death in the family at a thanksgiving celebration, Wallendorf and Arnould argue that families deliver important messages to each other about this.
What is a ritual message about endurance and togetherness?
400
"In medical school and again in residency, the same ritual techniques that transform a youth into a Marine are employed to transform college students into physicians" says Davis-Floyd, is akin to this kind of cognitive simplification.
What is hazing?
500
Four interrelated genres that comprise modern Olympic games.
What are ritual, spectacle, festival, and game?
500
According to this theorist, the communicative possibilities of ritual images and their capacity to accommodate large public participation have changed the American political experience.
Who is Gregor Goethals?
500
According to MacAloon, these are an answer to Durkheim's call for "new feasts and ceremonies".
What are the Olympic games?
500
According to Goethals, the ritualistic power of the nightly news is due, in part, to this.
What is its regularly scheduled time and uniform presentation?
500
When Eliade says, "Every ritual has a divine model," he refers to this as a way of understanding the use of his concept of the "center".
What is an archetype?