POLI 476 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Social Contract, Sibyl, Jean-Jacques Rousseau
3 Apr 2016
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Pr cis: give an example of a collective act that has a religious quality to it, as defined by durkheim but is not religious in a traditional substantive sense. How durkheim frame his analysis of religion + more descriptive details of the book + society as sacred. Totem and clan and how he is using. Developing a theory of collective action and social integration and stability. Those ideas are seen as central to religion. From there there is ideas of transcendental being or essence helps you understand questions of the world. He is not doing that in this definition. Daniel bell: religion is a set of coherent answers to the core existential questions that confront every human group . Galston: a belief in a supernatural being or beings, prayers or communication with that or those beings, transcendent realities including heaven, paradise or enlightenment.
