Exam 1: The Anthropological Study of Religion

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A) display sound evidence to convince us that they too hold spiritual beliefs.
B) do not display anything seemingly religious that it similar to human superstition.
C) display false associations of causality, like human superstitions, which are not to be counted as true religious behavior.
D) have a sense of ancestor worship.

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A) celestial observation
B) agriculture
C) adversity (life is hard)
D) divine visitation

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C

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A) differ dramatically from the types of spirit beings found in modern religions.
B) were considered to be more personal than modern deities.
C) have their analogues or exact prototypes in modern religions.
D) were based entirely upon superstition.

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A) Holism is present across other disciplines of psychology and biology; anthropology had to adopt this principle
B) Holism provides solutions to immediate problems posed by religion
C) Humans have perceived and received different truths across time and space
D) None of the above

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A) Her own religious beliefs.
B) Non scholarly works read while researching the subject.
C) Various iconic media images of the time period.
D) Experiences at Buddhist wats (temples) in California.

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A) Loyalty and trust
B) Loyalty and "the exclusion syntax principle"
C) Loyalty and "the concrete principle"
D) Loyalty and avoiding anti-popular culture biases

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A) Spiro
B) Durkheim
C) Malinowski
D) Tylor

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A) Discouraging narrative and subjectivity or personal accounts in research findings.
B) Maintaining distance from research subjects.
C) Exploring and reporting how the subject or society being studied have affected the internal thoughts . and processing of the researcher.
D) Engaging in what Spradley describes as "passive" rather than "active" participation in the culture being studied.

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A) The objects or players in religion are non-human or non-living
B) The objects or players in religion are not social and are outside of society
C) The objects or players in religion are commoditized and are therefore not distinct from the other domains
D) The objects or players in religion are not affected by environment or other pervasive factors such as gender or language

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A) cross-cultural similarities and differences on a global level and varieties of experiences amongst members of the same society
B) how assertions by scholars from other disciplines are correct or incorrect
C) whether or not beliefs and practices provide a positive function for the society
D) topics the society may view as taboo

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A) disprove it.
B) demonstrate that it needs to be broadened in order to include a belief in mana and/or superstitions.
C) distinguish religious belief from other forms of causal beliefs.
D) demonstrate the difference between true religious concepts and the concept/phenomenon that Tylor studied.

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A) the concept of a supreme plan or order.
B) the concept of a soul.
C) the idea of divine regeneration.
D) natural observation.

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A) differences in religious practice are arbitrary.
B) there are five major approaches to religion corresponding to five geographical regions.
C) there are different "types," from simple to complex, of religious forms, which often correspond to the level of social structure in the society.
D) "primitive" belief systems lack important characteristics of religion as a genre.

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