Religion
- Origins
- Functions and Focus
- Role of Magic: imitative or homoeopathic; sympathetic; contagious
- Universals of Religion (Keesing)
- Belief or Dogma
- View of Spiritual Beings
- gods
- Monism/Pantheism
- Monotheism (Monarchy, Trinitarianism)
- Henotheism
- Duotheism (Zoroastrianism)
- Polytheism (Tritheism)
- spirits
- angels
- demons, devil
- ghosts
- recent dead
- remote dead
- distant ancestor, kachina
- totem animals
- heroes (half man, half god/spirit)
- power creatures (half man, half animal)
- forces of nature (Animism)
- rain, storms, lightning, wind, thunder
- mountains, rivers, trees
- View of Man
- basically good vs. basically bad
- free will vs. fate
- View of Time and Eternity
- View of Afterlife
- Sheol/Hades
- new world (new heavens and a new earth)
- reincarnation
- spirit free from body
- ghosts, ancestor spirits, kachinas, chiidii (only bad remains)
- Group Organization
- Membership
- Leadership
- shamans (medicine men)
- witches, sorcerers
- oracles, diviners/prophets
- priests
- teachers/preachers
- Participation
- Rituals and Rites
- Forms of worship
- penance, offerings/gifts, procession, bowing, anointing,
blessings and cursings, sing/chant, dancing, drums/flutes/guitar, clapping,
sacrificing/whole/eating, eating, prayer, reading/teaching
- Cycles of rituals
- Time
- feasts/festivals/fasts
- yearly, monthly, weekly, daily, 7 year, 50 year
- life, birth, death, marriage, baptisms, circumcision, retirement, achievements, coming of age
- Religious Objects or Paraphernalia
- Houses and Places of Worship
- temples, synagogue, tabernacle, mosque, church, shrines,
kivas, high places (altars, prayer feather shrines), teepee,
hogan/house, sweat lodge
- Objects of Worship
- songbooks, musical instruments, prayer feathers, fetishes,
kachina masks, masks, robes, incense censers, altars tables, candles,
lamps, foods, prayer rugs, idols/images, pulpits/podium, prayer
railing, anointing oil, ashes, holy water, crosses, star of David,
curtains
- Linguistic Behavior
- Sacred Literature (Bible, Koran)
- Myths
- Fables, parables (moral)
- Tricksters (dwarf, spider, rabbit, coyote, raven)
- Hymns/songs
- Magic Spells
- Religious Language
- Affective or Emotional Elements
- World Religions: Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Shintoism, Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Animism, Paganism,
Syncretism
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