Author Question: The major difference between animism and animatism has to do with whether the supernatural force ... (Read 94 times)

nummyann · **on:** Jul 10, 2018

The major difference between animism and animatism has to do with whether the supernatural force that occupies an
entity is:

a. personal or impersonal and without identity.
b. natural or supernatural.
c. a god or an ancestral spirit.
d. a priest or a shaman.
e. an example of witchcraft or of divination.

Question 2

If religious belief reflects the structure of society, in which types of society would you expect to find widespread belief in ancestral spirits?

a. Those in which descent groups play a major role in social organization
b. Those that have a disproportionately large number of old people
c. Those that have a disproportionately large number of young people
d. Those in which neolocal marital residence is the rule
e. Those with egocentric systems such as the kindred