Describe the three rituals you have chosen (Puja, Buddhist & Shinto), providing hard data on each from primary or secondary sources.

Describe the three rituals you have chosen (Puja, Buddhist & Shinto), providing hard data on each from primary or secondary sources. (a) What religious symbols are used in this ritual, and their meaning to the participants? (b) What ritual actions performed by the people (or religious specialists) are supposed to prolong a hierophany or kratophany?, and (c) What are some of the religious experiences had by participants in the ritual? How might these reflect the mysterium tremendum and the mysterium fascinans?

Interpret another ritual from the Reductionist perspective. You might include questions such as, (a) Was the ritual performed by a certain social class, or for a particular political end? (b) What else was happening in the culture at the time the ritual was created or performed? and (c) Did this ritual serve to bolster the political interest of the status quo?

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