From: Lavenda and Shultz (2007)

Worldview - A culture's perception of human existence that is agreed upon by its people. 

Religion - Human beings use religion to interpret and interact with supernatural forces.

Traditional religions - Belief that mountains, lakes, rocks, and other natural objects contain sentient
spiritual energies.

Ancestor cult - In some belief systems a deceased relative can remain to care for or curse their
descendants, depending on whether they are breaking traditional rules.

God - Spiritual being with certain characteristics that are both conscious like a person as
well as equipped with great divinatory powers.

Polytheistic Religions - Religions that believe in more than one god.

Mana - Spiritual powers capable of following orders from the person who uses ritualistic symbolism
correctly.

Oracle - A invisible spiritual power that is capable of answering questions through
symbolic messages that only those with the right training can decipher.

Dogma/Orthodoxy - The right and only way to believe in a religion.

Myths - Stories that tell about the history of a people.

Origin Myths - Creation Stories of how the natural and human world came to be.

Ritual - A ritual is a practice where a person or persons follow a set of concrete motions
that is performed the same way each time and has symbolic meanings that are
often found in traditional stories.

Religious Rituals - In order to get the attention of cosmic forces a set of concrete ritualistic
actions are performed in order to gain favor or the compassion of the god or
gods.    

Prayer - A means of communication to a god or gods through the use of particular body
postures and language.  

Sacrifice - The act of giving an object such as food, clothing, or animal life to the cosmic
forces.

Congregation - The gathering of those of the same faith who come together to worship.\

Orthopraxy - A religion in which members have to perform rituals in exactly the right way.

Rite of Passage - A rite of passage is when individual or individuals  of  a particular community
go through a ritualistic social change.

Liminal Period - A ritualistic transitional state where a person goes through a period of neither
belonging to the social status of the past nor to that of the future.

Commmunitas - Those who are in the liminal period usually feel as if they don’t belong to any
social group and so they form a friendship with the other initiates even if it
doesn't last after the liminal period is complete and the new social status is
given.

Magic - A ritual that involves actions that do not bring immediate results but eventually
will.

Witchcraft - A belief that certain individuals can unconsciously awaken evil powers within
themselves that ends up causing harm to others. 

Shamans - Individuals in small-scale societies that maintain the authority over that societies
religion.

Priests - Specialists in certain spiritual belief systems that perform rituals for the well-being of

the members of its religious institution.