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Course: |
ANT 225
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Title: | Anthropology of Religion |
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Long Title: | Anthropology of Religion GT:SS3 |
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Course Description: | Explores the culturally universal phenomenon of religion including cross-cultural varieties of beliefs in the supernatural and the religious rituals people employ to interpret and control their worlds. |
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Min Credit: | 3 |
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STANDARD COMPETENCIES:
1. Describe the goals, questions, and mysteries religion attempts to address
2. Compare similarities and differences between religions in a comparative and cross-cultural context
3. Describe the social and cultural impact religion has on cultures
4. Explain how cultural contexts have affected the emergence and development of religious traditions
5. Apply anthropological theory to the analysis of the influence of religion and spiritual beliefs on cultural and social changes
6. Explain and understand the dynamics of the emergence of alternative religions often referred to as cults
7. Approach religion academically, and discuss fundamental principles of and questions about the nature and function of religion
8. Analyze religious activity as a human activity, even though its frame of reference is to something beyond the ordinary world of human beings
9. Focus on the quest for meaning in light of cultural adaptation to the physical and spiritual environments
10. Discuss how social bonds are reinforced through ritual acts
11. Interpret maintenance of political organization and social stratification through religious practices
TOPICAL OUTLINE:
I. The Nature of the Discipline of Anthropology
A. The fields of anthropology
B. Methodology
II. Culture and the Supernatural
A. Ritual and belief
B. Spirit, mana, gods, goddesses
C. Manipulation of beings and powers
D. Trance, dance, music, magic, sacrifice
III. Myths and Doctrine
A. Ecclesiastical
B. Oral tradition
C. Sanctions and taboos
D. Guiding principles of social order
E. Ancestry worship
F. Symbols
IV. Social and Psychological Functions
A. Maintenance of social solidarity
B. Delimiting human conduct
C. Reduction of stress/provision of comfort
D. Making sense of the world
E. Adaptation to crises
V. Formal and Informal Belief Systems
A. Religion
B. Polytheism
C. Animism
D. Animatism
E. Magic
F. Witchcraft
VI. Associated Healing Practices
A. Specialists
B. Ethnobotany
C. Imitative and contagious magic
D. Pharmacology: faunal and floral
VII. Transformations
A. Rites of passage
B. Rites of intensification
C. States of transition and isolation
D. Separation and incorporation
E. Transfiguration
VIII. Revitalization Movements
A. Societal reformation
B. Response to severe acculturation
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