Chapter 8
Reading Assignment: Chapter 8, Religious Social Organization
As you read, consider the following questions and/or ideas:
- How do shamans, priests, and prophets differ?
- What causes the professionalization of religious specialists and the declining role of charisma?
- Does growth inevitably change the nature of religious organizations and leadership?
- Is religious ideology best defined by the beliefs of religious specialists or the beliefs of other followers, and how is it possible for the two to differ?
Video Lectures
| Introduction to Religious Social Organization: Cult Institutions (WMV) (MOV) | |||
| Practitioners (WMV) (MOV) | |||
| Shamans (WMV) (MOV) | |||
| Five Types of Illnesses Healed by Shamans (WMV) (MOV) | |||
| Soul Loss (WMV) (MOV) | |||
| Spirit Possession (WMV) (MOV) | |||
| Object Intrusion (WMV) (MOV) | |||
| Sorcery and Witchcraft (WMV) (MOV) | |||
| Taboo Violation (WMV) (MOV) | |||
| Sorcerers (WMV) (MOV) | |||
| Priests (WMV) (MOV) | |||
| Prophets (WMV) (MOV) | |||
| Sect, Cult, and Church (WMV) (MOV) | |||
| Conclusion to chapter 8 (WMV) (MOV) | |||
Lecture Notes
Chapter 8 lecture notes (PDF)
Quiz
Chapter 8 quiz (HTML)
Images
Chapter 8 images (HTML)
Additional Resources
- Definition of Cult - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult_%28religion%29
- Definition of Sorcerer - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorcerers
- Definition of Priest - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priest
- Definition of Prophet - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prophet
Citation: admin. (2005, August 02). Chapter 8. Retrieved November 23, 2009, from Free Online Course Materials — USU OpenCourseWare Web site: http://ocw.usu.edu/Anthropology/Anthropology_of_Religion/topic8.htm.
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