RELIGST 1B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Anschluss, Glossary Of Ancient Roman Religion, Martha Bernays
3 Oct 2020
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Some more remarks about the second assignment (accessing the gage encyclopedia) Focus on eliade and freud in light of paul arnold"s lecture. Smith suggests that religion and its scholarly study are relatively recent phenomena, and a creation of academia. There is nothing expressly regarded as outside" the scholar"s range of choices. The scholar should not be constrained by the de nitional criteria of religious insiders" (p. 72). Smith is also noted for his critique of comparative studies in religion, such as those by joseph. Campbell and mircea eliade, which seek to demonstrate shared propensities among human beings across disparate cultures. Smith emphasizes that there is much to be gained by looking at the differences rather than the commonalities. Yet these procedures of drawing distinctions between them" and us," or of othering," and of boundary creation, are a hallmark of human behavior and often particularly linked to religion (p. 72) .
