ANTH 2 CH. 12 QUESTIONS WITH 100%
VERIFIED ANSWERS [ GRADED A+]
What is the key to Wallace's definition of religion? - ✔✔Wallace focuses
on beliefs and rituals concerned with supernatural beings, powers, and
forces.
Which of the following statements best summarizes how Durkheim's
approach to religion differed from that taken by Wallace? - ✔✔Durkheim
stressed the collective, social, and shared nature of religion, the meanings
it embodies, and the emotions it generates.
What is animism? - ✔✔A belief in spiritual beings which was, according to
Tylor, the earliest form of religion
Who asserted that the basic building block of all religious thought and ritual
was a belief in the soul? - ✔✔Sir Edward Burnett Tylor
©morren2025/2026.Year published 2025.
, What is the term for a type of religion that worships one single god? -
✔✔monotheism
Who offered a definition of religion that focused on belief and ritual
concerned with supernatural forces and beings? - ✔✔Anthony F. C.
Wallace
The concept of mana is used to explain - ✔✔why some people seem to be
more fortunate than others.
For _____, the "sacred" was a domain set off from the ordinary, or the
mundane (profane). - ✔✔Durkheim
Ordinary Polynesians had to undergo purification rites if they were
accidentally exposed to nobility or nobles' possessions. This was because
those persons and possessions were ______, or sacred and forbidden. -
✔✔taboo
©morren2025/2026.Year published 2025.
VERIFIED ANSWERS [ GRADED A+]
What is the key to Wallace's definition of religion? - ✔✔Wallace focuses
on beliefs and rituals concerned with supernatural beings, powers, and
forces.
Which of the following statements best summarizes how Durkheim's
approach to religion differed from that taken by Wallace? - ✔✔Durkheim
stressed the collective, social, and shared nature of religion, the meanings
it embodies, and the emotions it generates.
What is animism? - ✔✔A belief in spiritual beings which was, according to
Tylor, the earliest form of religion
Who asserted that the basic building block of all religious thought and ritual
was a belief in the soul? - ✔✔Sir Edward Burnett Tylor
©morren2025/2026.Year published 2025.
, What is the term for a type of religion that worships one single god? -
✔✔monotheism
Who offered a definition of religion that focused on belief and ritual
concerned with supernatural forces and beings? - ✔✔Anthony F. C.
Wallace
The concept of mana is used to explain - ✔✔why some people seem to be
more fortunate than others.
For _____, the "sacred" was a domain set off from the ordinary, or the
mundane (profane). - ✔✔Durkheim
Ordinary Polynesians had to undergo purification rites if they were
accidentally exposed to nobility or nobles' possessions. This was because
those persons and possessions were ______, or sacred and forbidden. -
✔✔taboo
©morren2025/2026.Year published 2025.
