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world-view, ideology, and cosmology are all:
one's expectations of how the world works
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world-view...
emphasizing perception and experience
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ideology...
emphasizing guiding principles
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cosmology...
emphasizing the universe and everything in it
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science-
the form of knowledge acquired by the scientific method
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scientific method-
a way of self-correcting knowledge
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Two main approaches:
Materialist & Interpretivist
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materialist-
the scientific approach
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interpretivist-
the humanistic approach
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types of religion:
animatism, animism, theism
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animatism-
belief in impersonal force
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mana-
the force in animatism (luck is the english word for mana)
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tabu-
a prohibition with an immediate impersonal supernatural sanction
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animism-
belief in spirits (egalitarian)
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spirits-
a supernatural person (they have personality traits)
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theism-
belief in gods (stratified society)
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gods-
a spirit who creates or controls some aspect of the world
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egalitarian-
society in which everyone has the same basic access to resources, power, and prestige (animism)
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stratified-
society in which groups have differential access to resources, power, and prestige (theism)
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