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Religion Discussion Guide
Worldwide we find that religion expresses, reflects, explains, and legitimizes cultural practices, values, and the socio-political order. In other words, it FITS into the “barrel” of that particular culture. Begin by reminding yourselves what your barrel looks like:
What are some of your core cultural values?
Briefly describe your social and political organization.
Briefly describe your subsistence and exchange practices.
Would you describe your culture’s religion as animist, monotheist, polytheist, pantheist, ancestral, other, or some combination of these? Describe and explain.
What are some of the core moral values that your culture’s religious ideas express, explain, and legitimize?
How do your religious ideas express, reflect, explain, and legitimize the socio-political order?
What sorts of religious practices are performed in your culture? (worship, prayer, rituals, séances, dances, etc.)
When somebody in your culture dies, what happens? (you can answer in both spiritual and “real-world” terms).
An otherwise normal mushroom has grown to over 4 feet tall. How do people in your culture explain it?
What happens when somebody becomes seriously ill?
What are some of your core cultural values?
Briefly describe your social and political organization.
Briefly describe your subsistence and exchange practices.
Would you describe your culture’s religion as animist, monotheist, polytheist, pantheist, ancestral, other, or some combination of these? Describe and explain.
What are some of the core moral values that your culture’s religious ideas express, explain, and legitimize?
How do your religious ideas express, reflect, explain, and legitimize the socio-political order?
What sorts of religious practices are performed in your culture? (worship, prayer, rituals, séances, dances, etc.)
When somebody in your culture dies, what happens? (you can answer in both spiritual and “real-world” terms).
An otherwise normal mushroom has grown to over 4 feet tall. How do people in your culture explain it?
What happens when somebody becomes seriously ill?
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