Magic and Supernatural Powers
Cultural Anthropology: Religion Chapter 11 Religion - Belief Systems: How Do We Explain the Unexplainable? (Assignment should contain no less than 200 words in Part A and no less than 100 words in Part B!) Part A - Critical Thinking Assignment: We tend to think that in our culture we do not believe in "magic" or the "supernatural". Why is that? Can you think of examples where we do believe in the supernatural? How would a lucky tie work, for example? :) (Note: The book: Culture Counts A concise Introduction to Cultural Anthropology 2nd edition) If you “Google” the book and bring it up in Amazon, you can see inside the book to get information you may need. Part B- Your thoughts Assignment: WATCH: Online Video clips: "Witchcraft" Rebounds in Russia & Belief in Elves Strong in Iceland https://www(dot)youtube(dot)com/watch?v=ibnOqKTgg_0 and https://www(dot)youtube(dot)com/watch?v=dHvOeiGHgfw Write about your thoughts and the contents of the two videos.
Magic and Supernatural Powers
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In the current society the ideas of supernatural powers have easily faded away into oblivion, but that is not to say that there are no instances that have pushed people to believe that there was some sort of supernatural intervention. The fact that most of the developments that are around as are as a results of scientific interventions that involve brilliant minds, and the embrace of religious beliefs or the lack thereof explains partly why most of the people do not give credit to the supernatural powers playing part in any instances in their lives. However there are incidences such as houses that are befallen by tragedy for more than once being related to supernatural and specifically the dark powers.
Incidences such as luck are some of the times extended to match the interventions of the supernatural. Events like near-death experiences are some of the time related to the fact that supernatural powers whisked the victims to safety or intervened in other ways, while in the same breath horrible accidents are associated with ominous supernatural powers. ...