Chapter 7

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Reading Assignment: Chapter 7, Religious Ritual

As you read, consider the following questions and/or ideas:

What are the psychological and social functions of ritual?
Why do people practice rituals?
How could magic be both "false" and "useful" at the same time?
How do rituals symbolize the stresses and tensions of social life?

Video Lectures

Introduction to Religious Ritual (WMV) (MOV)
Mormon Sacrament (WMV) (MOV)
Participation in Rituals (WMV) (MOV)
Rituals in the Human Lifecycle (WMV) (MOV)
Rituals as Sacred Underwriting of Ideology (WMV) (MOV)
Ritual as Influence (WMV) (MOV)
	Technological Rituals (WMV) (MOV)
	Rituals as Therapy and Anti-Therapy (WMV) (MOV)
	Salvation Rituals (WMV) (MOV)
	Mysticism and Salvation in Rituals (WMV) (MOV)
	Manipulation and Petition (WMV) (MOV)
		Shoshone Love Magic (WMV) (MOV)
Conclusion to chapter 7 (WMV) (MOV)

Lecture Notes

Chapter 7 lecture notes (PDF)

Quiz

Chapter 7 quiz (HTML)

Images

Chapter 7 images (HTML)

Additional Resources

Rituals - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritual
Pilgrimages - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilgrimage

Copyright 2008, by the Contributing Authors. Cite/attribute Resource. admin. (2005, August 02). Chapter 7. Retrieved November 23, 2009, from Free Online Course Materials — USU OpenCourseWare Web site: http://ocw.usu.edu/Anthropology/Anthropology_of_Religion/topic7.htm. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.

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