religions - 2024 ACF Winter

Question

An Émile Durkheim work about the origins of these practices explains how the sacred is “set apart and forbidden” from mundane human experience. For 10 points each:

[10e] Name these practices, common among most human societies, whose believers often rely on faith.

ANSWER: religions [or word forms like religiosity and religious]

[10m] Durkheim’s sacred/profane distinction first appeared in his study of these objects that groups imbue with religious meaning. A Sigmund Freud essay on the incest taboo appears in a work partly titled for these objects.

ANSWER: totems [accept totemism]

[10h] This theorist wrote The Sacred and the Profane, in which myths are described as hierophanies, or manifestations of the sacred in otherwise-profane areas. This theorist analyzed the axis mundi across myth systems.

ANSWER: Mircea Eliade (“MEER-chay-ah ay-lee-AH-day”)

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Summary


2024 ACF Winter at UC Berkeley	2024-11-16	Y	3	16.67	67%	67%	33%
2024 ACF Winter at Lehigh	2024-11-16	Y	6	8.33	67%	17%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Northwestern	2024-11-16	Y	9	16.67	100%	44%	22%
2024 ACF Winter at Ohio State	2024-11-16	Y	7	11.43	86%	29%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Online	2024-11-16	Y	8	16.25	88%	63%	13%
2024 ACF Winter at UBC	2024-11-16	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Central Florida	2024-11-16	Y	5	8.00	60%	20%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Oxford	2024-11-16	Y	11	13.64	82%	46%	9%
2024 ACF Winter at Brandeis	2024-11-16	Y	11	9.09	55%	36%	0%

Data


Berkeley A	Berkeley C	10	0	10	20
Johns Hopkins A	Columbia A	10	10	0	20
Penn B	Penn State B	10	0	0	10
Indiana A	UIUC A	10	10	10	30
UChicago A	UIUC C	10	10	10	30
Missouri	Texas B	10	10	0	20
WUSTL A	Ole Miss	10	10	0	20
UCF A	UF C	10	0	0	10
UF D	Florida Tech B	0	0	0	0
A Brandeis Supreme	Boston University B	0	0	0	0
Berkeley B	Stanford A	10	10	0	20
Stanford M	Stanford L	0	10	0	10
Columbia B	Bard A	10	0	0	10
Haverford A	Rowan A	10	0	0	10
Penn A	Penn State A	0	0	0	0
Rutgers C	Lehigh A	0	0	0	0
UIUC B	Purdue A	10	10	0	20
Purdue D	Indiana B	10	0	0	10
UChicago C	WashU B	10	0	0	10
Northwestern A	WashU C	10	10	0	20
Michigan C (UG)	Kenyon B (DII)	10	0	0	10
Kenyon A (UG)	Michigan State B (UG)	10	0	0	10
Michigan State C (UG)	CWRU A (UG)	10	0	0	10
Ohio State B (DII)	Pitt B (UG)	10	0	0	10
Michigan B	Ohio State C (DII)	10	10	0	20
Pitt A	Michigan D	10	10	0	20
Central Oklahoma	NYU A	10	10	0	20
Mississippi State	Vassar B	10	0	0	10
Texas A	NYU B	10	10	10	30
Texas C	Texas D	10	0	0	10
UW B	UBC A	10	10	0	20
UCF B	Florida State University A	0	0	0	0
UF B	UF A	10	10	0	20
Imperial A	Bristol B	10	0	0	10
Cambridge B	Southampton B	10	0	0	10
LSE A	Southampton A	10	10	0	20
Warwick A	Bristol A	10	10	0	20
Amherst A	Williams A	0	10	0	10
Yale B	Bowdoin A	0	0	0	0
Boston University A	Diamond Brandeis	0	0	0	0
Boston University A	Diamond Brandeis	10	0	0	10
Boston University A	Diamond Brandeis	0	0	0	0
Boston University A	Diamond Brandeis	10	0	0	10
Boston University A	Diamond Brandeis	0	0	0	0
Boston University A	Diamond Brandeis	10	0	0	10
Boston University A	Diamond Brandeis	0	0	0	0
Boston University A	Diamond Brandeis	10	0	0	10
Brandeises Brew	Harvard A	10	0	0	10
Northeastern A	MIT A	10	10	0	20
Tufts B	Yale A	10	10	0	20
Notre Dame	WashU D	10	0	0	10
SIUE A	UChicago B	10	0	0	10
UIUC D	UChicago D	10	0	0	10
CWRU B (UG)	CWRU D (DII)	0	0	0	0
McGill E	Arkansas	0	10	0	10
Vassar A	Oregon State	10	0	0	10
Alberta	UBC B	10	0	0	10
SFU	UW A	10	0	0	10
UF E	Florida Tech A	10	0	0	10
Birmingham	Oxford B	10	10	0	20
Durham B	Cambridge D	10	10	0	20
Edinburgh	Durham A	0	0	0	0
Warwick B	Imperial B	10	0	0	10
Cambridge C	LSE B	0	0	0	0
Southampton A	Southampton B	10	0	0	10
Oxford A	Team 1	10	10	10	30
Brown A	Carabrandeis	10	10	0	20
Clark A	Bowdoin B	0	0	0	0
Tufts A	Yale C	10	0	0	10