RELS 341 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Glossary Of Ancient Roman Religion, Theism
13 Feb 2018
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Meaningful di erence from what lois lee, after kim knott, calls conventional religion . Conventional religion indicates religious institutions, their traditions, beliefs (incl. theism), and practices, and the people who adhere to them. The non in non-religious describes a meaningful di erentiation as in the sense of. Non-violence it makes sense to specify a protest as a nonviolent protest if it is one because protest often turns violent, but you wouldn"t say non-violent cooking . Critical point: non-religion generally and primarily understands itself in contradistinction to religion. The very idea of being religious" requires a companion notion of what it would mean to be not religious", and this dichotomy was not part of the ancient world (nongbri 2013, 4) In medieval period, religiosus" and saecularis" = di erent types of ecclesiastical vows (monks vs. ordinary clergy) Secular: -ity/-ism/-ization, substantial vs. insubstantial (lee) Case study: free the children as a new secular spiritual movement .
