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| the collective body of ideas that members of a culture generally share concerning the ultimate shape and substance of their reality |
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| an organized system of ideas about the spiritual sphere or the supernatural, along with associated ceremonial practices by which people try to interpret and/or influence aspects of the universe otherwise beyond their control |
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| concern with the sacred, as distinguished from material matters. In contrast to religion, spirituality of often individual rather than collective and does not require a distinctive format or traditional organization |
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| belief in several gods and/or goddesses (as contrasted with monotheism - belief in one god or goddess) |
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| the several gods and goddesses of a people |
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| a belief that nature is animated (enlivened or energized) by distinct personalized spirits beings separable from bodies |
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| a belief that nature is enlivened or energized by an impersonal spiritual power or supernatural potency |
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| a full-time religious specialist formally recognzed for his or her role in guiding the religious practices of others and for contacting and influencing supernatural powers |
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| a person who enters an alterd state of consciosness at well - to contact and utilize an ordinarily hidden reality in order to acquire knowledge, power and to help others |
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| a prohibition, which if no observed, leads to a penalty inflicted by magic, spiritual force, or religion |
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| a ritual that marks an important stage in an individual's life cycle, such as birth, marriage, and death |
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| in a rite of passage, the ritual removal of the individual from society |
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| in a rite of passage, isolation of the individual following separation and prior to incorporation into society |
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| a ritual that takes place during a crisis in the life of the group and serves to bind individuals together |
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| magic based on the principle that produces like; sometimes called sympathetic magic |
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| magic based on the principle that things or persons once in contact can influence each other after the contact is broken |
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| an explanation of events based on the belief that certain individuals possess an innate psychic power capable of causing harm, including sickness and death |
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| a magical procedure or spiritual ritual designed to find out what is not knowable by ordinary means, such as foretelling the future by interpreting omens |
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| a movement for radical cultural reform in response to widespread social disruption and collective feelings of great stress and despair |
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| a spiritual movement (especially noted in Melanesia) in reaction to disruptive contact with Western capitalism, promsing resuurection of deceased relatives, destruction or enslavement of white foreigners, and the magical arrival of Utopian riches |
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| creative use of the human imagination to aesthetically interpret, express, and engage life, modifying experienced reality in the process |
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| culturally specific people, animals, and monsters seen in the deepest stage of trance |
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| a term coined by 19th-century scholars studying the unwritten stories and other artistic traditions of rural people to distinguish between "folk art" and the "fine art" of the literate elite |
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| a sacred narrative that explains the fundamentals of human existence - where we and everything in our world came from, why we are here, and where we are going |
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| a story about a memorable event or figure handed down by tradition and told as true but without historical evidence |
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| a long, dramatic narrative recounting the celebrated deeds of a historic or legendary hero - often sung or recited in poetic language |
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| a creative narrative that is recognized as fiction for entertainment but may also draw a moral or teach a practical lesson |
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| a story situation in a tale |
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| the study of a society's music in terms of its cultural setting |
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| in music, scale systems and their modifications |
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