How do shamans and priests contrast with one another?
a. Shamans elect to become practitioners while priests are chosen by the gods.
b. Priests are part of a formal bureaucracy of religious specialists; shamans are not.
c. Shamans are set apart from the rest of the populace while priests live very much like everyone else.
d. Shamans spend more years being trained than do priests.
ANSWER:
b
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