REL 1000 : Test 1 Study Guide
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Immediate: belief in mana (supernatural power within people : spirits) Belief in an occult force or indwelling supernatural power: animism. Motionless objects and living creatures possess souls or spirits: veneration and worship of powers, recognition of a supernatural being, taboo, purification rites. Birth, death, bloodshed, blood itself, and contact with taboo person is pollution. Fasting, shaving hair, cleaning, etc. is purification: sacrifices and gifts, attitudes towards the dead. Believe in life after death: totemism. These are the healers who can handle things and put things back into the world. They can take a spirit from another god and become him and be him. Does not want to fight war against own kinsmen. Let them store up merit toward rebirth in paradise after: like the ten commandments, mahayana buddhism, buddhism in india, larger of the two, emphasizes the common search for universal salvation especially through faith alone. Buddahood: zen, the meditative schools of china and japan tracing their founding to bodhidharma.
