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They function to maintain socioeconomic stratification
They focus on the worship of natural phenomena
They are superfluous features of state-level organizations
They are characterized by rituals, such as the potlatch, which serve to level differences in wealth between people
They are based mainly on animistic belief systems
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Communal religion
Shamanic religion
Olympian religion
Individualistic cults
Idiosyncratic belief systems
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Animism
Magic
Religion
A rite of passage
Pantheism
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Binary opposition
Generalized exchange
Applied anthropology
Rites of passage
Genetic programming
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Serve emotional needs as well as cognitive (e.g., explanatory) ones
Help reduce differences by promoting brotherly love
Determine the emotional well-being of all of their practitioners
Often lead to extreme psychological disruption and even mental illness
Are psychologically and cognitively relevant, but these realms are well contained and have no effect beyond the mental well-being (or despair) of the practitioner
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State organization precludes folk religions
All state religions are monotheistic
State religions follow the introduction of writing system
State religions often serve to make social stratification more acceptable
Although industrial states do not always have state religion, they are invariant features of archaic states
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A social inequality that is accepted even by those who are less privileged
Collective liminality
Anxiety
The latin word for mana
The supernatural
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It is a cultural construction, therefore not a reality
It creates and maintains divisions within society
It is sometimes a source of conflict
It is, in some cases, ecologically adaptive
It creates and maintains social solidarity
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Communal
Shamanic
Cargo cult
Monotheistic
Polytheistic
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