GROUP 1:

Define Indigenous people

Give an example relating voices of authority to gender.
Define ‘comfort’ as a functional meaning of religious action.
Explain “lost in translation” as a challenge to interpreting religious data.
How do “receivers” affect the meaning of religious words?

GROUP 2:
What characterizes the academic Study of Religion?
What is a symbol?
What three things can the word “religion” connote?
Define ‘order and chaos’ as a functional meaning of religious action
How do “senders” affect the meaning of religious words?

GROUP 3:
What two main things to scholars of Religion do?
What is the insider-outsider problem in the Study of Religion?
Define ‘control’ as a functional meaning of religious action.
How does media affect the meaning of religious words?
Give an example showing how power dynamics or gender influence religious words or actions?

GROUP 4:
What is the Latin meaning of ‘sacrifice’? What are the two English definitions?
How can religious actions affect relationships?
What is the relationship between colonialism and religion, especially in the Canadian context?
What are 4 challenges to understanding the meanings of words? Give examples from the study
of religions.
Define the trickster figure.
GROUP 5:
How is the academic study of religion connected to colonialism?
What is a rite of passage?
How can religious words shape someone’s reality?
What are four reasons to study religion academically?
Define ‘memory’ as a functional meaning of religious action.