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| What is the etymology of religion? (Latin) |
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Re - again
Lig - join or connect
join again or reconnect |
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Unlimited by world and all ordinary reality
ex: God is transcendent. |
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| All divine, Greek-Universe sacred form, no seperation |
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| What does the Latin word Religio- mean? |
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"awe for the gods"
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"concern for proper ritual" |
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| Deny existence of any God or gods |
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| Argue existence of God cannot be proven |
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| simply to take no position at all concerning God |
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| Who is Carl Jung and what did he do? |
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| Freud's student who broke away due to interpretational difference, mostly of religion; described it growing from the need to achieve individuation (bringing peices of self together) VS Freud's interpretation of dreams only opening the subconscious mind levels |
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| How does psychology approach religion? |
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| (Greek: "Soul study") mental states, emotions, behaviors; fairly a young discipline but takes a close look at religion |
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| Study of stories, texts, universal art; recurrent images, themes: tree of knowledge, heaven's ladder, secret garden, holy mountain, newborn child, suffering hero, cosmic battle, or teacher. |
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| (Greek: "love of wisdom") in some ways originated from the struggle with religion; both ask similar questions but philosophy doesn't auto accept answers; philosophy follows reason and fits answers into rational systematic whole. |
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| Differences between Philosophy and Religion |
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Philios- aviods emotion, without ritual, individual focus, reason.
Religion- nurtures emotion, ceremonial, community focus, religious authority. |
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(Greek: "study of divine") study of topics relating to one particular religion. A theologian studies his or her own system.
Ex: Seeking to become a Christian minister studies Christian theology |
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| architecture uses symmetry, height, archaic styles; slow pace music, repeated rhythms for tranquility; contain gold, haloes, equilateral designs & circles showing otherworldliness & perfection. |
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| (Greek: "study of humans") how religion influences ways a culture deals with issues: family interaction, individual roles, property rights, marriage, child rearing, social hierarchies & labor. |
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| (Greek: "study of origins") explores remains of earlier civilizations, uncovers artifacts/ruins of buildings from ancient cultures. Archeaologists translate writing left by people, much of which is religious. Sheds light on religious influence |
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| Linguistics/literary theory approach |
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| search for patterns, underlying language |
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| What are the 8 elements that is manifested in religion? |
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(BEECCMRS)
Belief system
Central myths
Community
Emotional Experiences
Ethics
Material expression
Ritual
Sacredness |
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| set of ideas, interpreting a given religious worldview |
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| Belief system shared, with group is practicing its ideals |
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| Stories expressing religious beliefs of community |
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| beliefs are enacted and made real through ceremonies |
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| behavioral rules revealed from both supernatural and society |
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| attached to Rel.:dread, guilt, awe, mystery, devotion, converison, rebirth, liberation, ecstasy, bliss inner peace. |
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| statues, painting, music (chants), instruments, ritual objects, flowers, incense, clothes, architecture, and locations. |
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| expressed in ceremony, language, clothes, architecture; concerned with deepest level of reality; core of everything; mysterious force. |
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| What is the root of religion? |
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| infers joining of natural, human world to the sacred |
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| involving worship of God/gods, prayer, ritual, and moral code |
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| Who suggested that all humankind first believed in one God and that beliefs in lesser gods were added? |
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| A power existing and operating within nature |
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something fairly concrete and ordinary that can represent and help human beings intensely experience something of greater complexity. |
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| implies several beliefs fitting together into a fairly complete and systematic interpretation of the universe and humanity's place in it |
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| sometimes expressed or experienced in certain objects, actions, or places |
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| Scottish anthropologist and author of "The Golden Bough" saw the origins of religion in early attempts by human beings to influence nature and who identified religion as an intermediate stage between magic and science. |
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| Nineteenth- and twentieth-century English anthropologist saw religion as being rooted in worship of ancestors and nature spirits. |
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| the belief that reality is made of two different principles (spirit and matter); or the belief in two gods (good and evil) in conflict |
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| A worldview common among indigenous religions, sees all elements of nature as being filled with spirit or spirits. |
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| French sociologist argued that religious behavior is relative to the society in which it is found, and that a society will often use a religion to reinforce its own values. |
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| The analytical approach; studies written texts of religion and even non-written material as reflections of the cultural values and assumptions that produced them. |
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| Jacques Derrida sought to go beyond ordinary interpretations, in essence to ________ texts and other phenomena in search of fresh ways of seeing. |
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| Structures in the human mind formed social similarities between kinship patterns, languages, and social relations. |
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| Emphasis on the individuality of each experience and argued that belief in grand structure may keep investigators from appreciating that individuality. |
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| going beyond interpretation of texts to discover new cultural meanings |
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