Exam 4: Shamans, Priests, and Prophets

Shoko Asahara had which of the following anthropologically defined qualities of a "prophet"or religious leader:

Asahara's Aum movement had infiltrated the ministry of science and technology in efforts to produce massive amounts of sarin nerve gas to spray and create the apocalypse that Aum followers believed would come.

Turner uses the term "divination"to refer to all of the following practices except

To Kogi men, women are seen as

Which term best denotes the meaning of aluna?

There are both good and evil Mámas that are active in Kogi society.

Which of the following is not a field of study central to the education of a Máma?

Shamans have often been compared to psychoanalysts and psychotherapists.

The education of a Kogi priest is a model for the education of all men.

Trance is a technique of dissociation which the shaman is forced to enter and usually has little control over.

While the term "shamanism"has been defined in various ways, to Vitebsky _________ is the single most important defining feature.

Shukkesha are members of Aum who have renounced society and live in communes.

All of the following are true demographics regarding Aum Shinrikyo membership EXCEPT:

How does Max Weber characterize the "prophet"?

Vitebsky suggests that shamanism seems to be becoming a globalized world religion.

In the introductory section to Chapter four, the editors assert that societies that place a great deal of emphasis on religious experts tend to

Reichel-Dolmatoff suggests that we should conceive of the Kogi as

The theory of unilineal evolution is one of the most important anthropological tools in any investigation of religious specialists.

Turner notes that the roles of "diviner"and "doctor"are most often

Turner asserts early on in his article that the practice of manipulating impersonal supernatural powers referred to as "magic"is