PHIL 202-3 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Baltimore Stars, Christianity, Meditation
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Chapter outline: basic human religion: looking both ways from stonehenge, looking forward from stonehenge, what is religion, why study religion, religious diversity. Three worlds: sky: associated with deities, earth: associated with humans, underworld: associated with monsters. Sacred places: presence of energy or power, set aside (sacred, mountains and hilltops, high places , rivers and waterfalls. Animal spirits: associated with a collective guardian spirit. Animals are treated with respect: body parts of animals = power objects . Death and burial: burial positions, towards the east = rising of the sun, fetal = hope for a rebirth, grave goods, provisions for the afterlife, dead ancestors, guide for their living descendants. Shamanism: shaman: intermediary between humans and the spirit world, ritual specialist, also known as medicine man, soul doctor, and witchdoctor. Hunting rituals: coping with dangerous situations, spirits survive death, shamans appease spirits. The shaman: called by own abilities (hereditary, psychic abilities, communicate with spirits by entering a trance state .
