Religion Oral Exam

Model of / Model for (1)

Religion is both a model of and model for society; Model for becomes a blueprint (Men is a model for humans); Orthodoxy and Orthopraxy

Orthodoxy (1)

the right belief

Orthopraxy (1)

correct practice

seeing as (1)

Colored lenses that we cannot remove, make things fit out schemas (ex: duck/rabbit drawing-can only see one)

Either/or (2)

Either something is true or it is not

both/and (2)

Both are true and is true; All solutions are true even when they contradict each other (the apple and the orange comparison)

reflexivity (3)

step out of oneself and one’s society and reflect critically on how one is thinking (becoming aware of awareness; apple and orange comparison)

sacred (3)

set apart from the ordinary; anything that belonged to the gods and could be encountered in the interior space of a temple

profane (3)

anything outside the sacrum or sacred interior space of the temple

sacred/profane example (3)

the ark, Uzzah touched it when trying to catch it and then died when he touched it; gives some people more power

magic (3)

any ritual act, private or public, that works through an assumed correspondence between subjective state and objective event in the physical world

insider (3)

someone who has been raised in a particular religious tradition or has converted to it and accepts its basic belief system and values (has more experiences with religion)

outsider (3)

someone who has not been raised in a particular religious tradition (can lose touch with religion and experience itself)

insider-outsider problem (3)

fill in later

another way to compare appropriately (3)

Making the strange familiar and the familiar strange: the videos about the Hindu tradition and the snakes; Nacirema and how it shows Christianity in America

myth (4)

a sacred story that founds and grounds or enacts a particular world (ex: creation, Passover, Islam and 55 prayers)

ritual (4)

the reenactment and realization of the myth that makes that world come into being

myth-ritual in the works (4)

Judaism: the Passover and celebration of it today; Christianity: Jesus dying and the old covenant being fulfilled; Islam: Muhammad goes through seven heavens and gets 50 prayers reduced to 5 because Moses told him 50 was too much

Comparative body (shared anatomy) (6)

Purity and impurity, Use the notion of body for comparison

• Use body for sex and race to compare

• Used as a comparative tool to understand how religions deal with the body

sex (6)

what you are born with biologically

sexual orientation (6)

who you like and are attracted to

sexual act (6)

self-explanatory

gender (6)

how you define yourself

Paternity-Patriarchy (6)

Having kids and passing down things; fill in more

Male Gaze (patriarchy) (6)

• Men take pleasure from staring and gazing at women and views them as objects

• Most religious societies have been patriarchal and male gaze has played a role

• the Hindu leader and his view on the period hut

Sexual ignorance of religion (seed and soil) (6)

Race & Religion (6)

Institutionalization of Charisma (7)

Miracles (7)

Symbol (8)

sign (8)

Material Culture (5)

• Body is always the same; we all have bodies that interact with the physical world

• We possess something else that is not the body; the consciousness

“Human as two” (9)

Human as 2: body (9)

always the same; we all have bodies that interact with the physical world; Material part

human as 2: Soul (9)

Immaterial part; eternal, changing, immaterial part; Buddhism: Immaterial part is the consciousness and will end; Jainism/Islam/Christianity: There is a unchanging and material soul; Soul will not die with body

Soteriology (9)

theory of salvation; how to reach happiness or eternal happiness;  cultivate rituals that put in myths and aimed towards a form of eternal happiness; Conditions change of how to get eternal happiness

Eschatology (9)

theory of what happens to soul after death (ex: Judgment Day)