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Question 1

questions that answers myths

Answer 1

• sociological
• anthropological
• religious studies
• psychological

Question 2

Question that myth answers

- anthropoloigcal

Answer 2

• Functions
• How and why
• Give us reasons for our actions – (no sex until married, why some cultures don’t eat certain foods)
• Values that a community lives by

Question 3

Question that myth answers

- Religious Studies

Answer 3

• Origins (Ontological)
• Study of beginnings,how things came to be
• ie. Creation story
• Primordial stories tell us our reason of being here, purpose/mission

Question 4

Question that myth answers

- psychological

Answer 4

• Subject
• Literal or symbolic
• ie. Story of Adonis
• Literal – anger breeds death in decay
• Symbolic – love conquours all, idea of rebirth

Question 5

academic – sociological

Answer 5

Bronislaw Malinowski

Question 6

academic – anthropoligical

Answer 6

Claude Levi-Strauss

Question 7

academic – religious studies

Answer 7

Micera Eliade

Question 8

academic – psychological

Answer 8

Jospeh Campbell

Question 9

sociological – important understandings

Answer 9

• Theories of society
• Looks at society as a group
• Looks at people and the decisions that they make
• Social contract – validation of our ‘norms’

Question 10

anthropoligical – important understandings

Answer 10

• Studying people and their cultures

- The study of “man”/human beings and culture

Question 11

religious studies – important understandings

Answer 11

• How religion developed as a society

- Ontology – primordial time

Question 12

psychological - important understandings

Answer 12

• Theories of the mind

- Our individual human journey – archetypes