Chapter 2

What is the goddess Pele associated with?

What has been of special value in the new appreciation for and the understanding of oral religions?

What way of teaching has made the transmission of oral religions more difficult?

What is not a way in which oral religion was conveyed?

What term refers to the love of all forms of life?

Who was influenced by African tribal masks?

What is possessed by virtually every object and act within a holistic culture?

Compared with oral religions, todays dominant religions are….

What term denotes the notion that lifeforce exists in every part of the universe?

What deity, known as the Black Elk, saw the circle as being a form in which many elements of nature arrange themselves in similar origin?

What was halted during the celebration of Makahiki in Hawai’i?

The concept of sacred space is evident in what?

What is believed within many African religions in regards to the High God?

What rite is associated with adulthood?

Why may one choose to sacrifice an animal?

What does a libation involve?

What term is associated with the concept of the possession of special abilities to know or even enter the spirit world?

Why is divination employed?

Why do dancers wear masks?

Christmas began as a celebration of what?

What exists as a threat to oral religions?

Where does the Maori religion exist as a cultural rebirth?

What term refers to a peace pipe?

How were oral religions regarded as?

What is the focus of sacred time?

What is constituted by the concept of sacred space?

When does the vision quest usually come within Native American religions?

What term refers to an event which reflects an important time in the development of an individual, usually marked within oral religions?

What term denotes the belief that all elements of the world are inhabited by spirits?

What do oral religions rarely make distinction between?