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Define and list 7 characteristics of culture |
1. Humans create culture |
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What is Culture
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Culture is the set of meanings, beliefs, values and rules for living shared by groups and socities as the source of their identity.
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What are the symbols, rituals, and name of rite for birth?
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- Touch
- signing of cross - rite of welcome |
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What are the symbols, rituals, and name of rite for marriage?
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- Ring/ embrace
- Exchange of promises / sexual expression - Marriage rite |
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What are the symbols, rituals, and name of rite for death?
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- Burial
- Invocation of baptism and death of jesus - Funeral rite |
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4 characteristics of ritual
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1) Passes on a tradition
2) Needs our bodies 3) Accompanied by words 4) Forms a community |
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What are some of the dangers and consequences of the privatization of religion?
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- Institutions are part of a helthy society and can weaken or die
- Shifting of the search for religious norms and values away from the church to a more individual and private - Taking Christ out of culture - More and more a personal decision to participate |
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T/F Does culture have the potential to harm us?
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TRUE
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T/F Humans create culture?
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TRUE
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T/F Without culture there would be chaos in society?
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TRUE
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T/F Not killing or stealing is a common value amongst cultures?
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TRUE
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T/F Rituals have a bodily component
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TRUE
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T/F Cultural life evovled from Africa
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TRUE
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T/F Western Culture is becoming more secularized
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TRUE
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T/F The liturgy is the official act of worship of the church
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TRUE
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T/F Females tend to believe in God more than males do
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TRUE
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T/F Culture is necessary to form our identity
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TRUE - Individuals are formed from a culture
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T/F Symbols are very different from signs
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TRUE
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T/F Symbols on their own do very little and you have to bring meaning to the symbol
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TRUE
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T/F Ritual has to do with words being expressed and gestures
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TRUE
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T/F In the animal world ritual is a used for social needs and biological needs
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TRUE
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T/F Advertising bombards us and there is a strategy to persuade someone to buy stuff
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TRUE
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T/F Secularization is the emptying out of the credibility of religious values in the public sector
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TRUE
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T/F Religion is becoming more privatized
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TRUE
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T/F Culture has a private component to it and its not just public
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TRUE
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T/F Ritual passes on tradition
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TRUE
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T/F Humans are linked to the sacred
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TRUE
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T/F Every society is religious
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TRUE
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What sacrements use oil?
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- Ordination
- Last rites/ annointing of the sick - Confirmation |
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T/F Symbols on their own do very little
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TRUE
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Father Coady
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Established a co-op involvement in Nova Scotia helping to provide jobs
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What is part of our culture
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- How we greet each other
- Elect governments - Celebrate christmas |
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Symbol means
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Thrown together
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Who are sumbols meaningful to
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Large group of people, one person, and family
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During which rite is water the most important symbol
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Baptism
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Oil is used for which 3 different sacraments
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- Ordination
- Confirmation - Sacrement of the sick |
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Rituals are
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Gestures and words
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Transcendence
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When God is beyond our physical experience
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Culture consists...
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In ways of doing things, which means its about HOW we do things
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U.S. is a cultural melting pot Canada is..
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A cultural mosiac
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What is an institution
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A way of doing something in a society that is a formalized system
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What objects/ gestures express specific meaning
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Signs -> Objects/ gestures that have one specific meaning
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Oglala
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They believed in nature that circles are a sacred symbol
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Sin
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A breach of our relationship with God and creation
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Goodness
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Result of being connected to God as branches to a vine
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Encyclical
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Letters written by the Pope for the entire people of God
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Anthropology
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The study of social development, practices, and beliefs of being human
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What ritual involves the exchange of promise rings
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Marriage
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Name for the world that isn't religious or sacred
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Secular world
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Communion
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What do we call the to and fro / back and forth of love
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