What features do religion and magic share?

What will be an ideal response?


ANSWER:
Both are systems of supernatural belief; are not susceptible to scientific verification; and are practiced as a way of coping with the anxieties, ambiguities, and frustrations of everyday life.

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According to the General Overview lecture, there are other countries of immigration that have a higher percentage of the population that consists of immigrants than the United States

a. true b. false

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Evangelical Protestantism is experiencing rapid growth in all of the following regions EXCEPT

A. Europe. B. sub-Saharan Africa. C. Latin America. D. the Middle East and North Africa. E. Brazil.

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Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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The insistence by anthropologists that valid hypotheses and theories about humanity be tested with data from a wide range of cultures is called:

a. cultural relativism. b. the comparative perspective. c. the holistic perspective. d. human variation.

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