Religious Observation

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Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
Religious Observation Exercise
For this exercise, you are required to attend a religious service that is unfamiliar to you.
It would be great if you could find at least one person to talk to (an informant) from the
service in order to understand the service from an emic perspective. Please address the
following questions:
The Setting
1. What kind of service did you attend? (If a Christian service, what denomination?)
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2. Where was the service located and when did the service take place?
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what kind of building was the service conducted ? Describe the setting.
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The Group/Congregation
4. Describe the group composition in terms of gender, age, whether they were
together as families or couples, or alone.
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5. Were congregants segregated by gender or age?
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6. Was the service well attended? _________________________________________________
The Clerical Staf
7. What was the composition of the clerical staf (were they men, women, children?)
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8. What kinds of jobs or activities were conducted by members of the clerical staf?
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9. Were there individuals and associated activities that were unclear to you or was it
easy to understand the roles of the clerical staf?
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The Service
10. What language(s) was used during the service?
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11. How long was the service? ____________________________________________________
12. Was there music? If so, what kind? _____________________________________________
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13. Were there prayers? If so, what was said and who said them?
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14. What kinds of rituals did you observe? What was their meaning?
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15. What kinds of symbols were used? What was their meaning?
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16. What was the central message of the service?
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17. Was the cleric successful at communicating that message? What methods did
he or she use in order to accomplish this?
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18. What was the response of the congregation to the central message and the
service in general?
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Your Experience
19. How did you respond to the service? Did you feel comfortable and welcome
there?
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20. What did you like about it, or not like about it?
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21. Was there anything that you didn’t understand?
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22. What did you learn?__________________________________________________________
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