RLG100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Totem, Vedas
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19 centuries: try to understand the origin of things, try to identify. Immerge of anthropology, start to look at the phenomena of religion and try to understand the origin of religion. Frazier: religion immerge among nature force which cannot be understood. In order to gain the favor of nature, human being apply magic and engage prayer. Religion emerge from ignorance, and once science appear, we don t need religion any more. Muller: study the sacred hidia sculpture: the vedas. We should look at the ancient document to understand the origin of the religion. Sanskrit: ancient human beings do not understand nature forces. They impose personality to all nature, and the nature became god which can have conflict with other god. Agni: we express religion image by using language. Apply certain science like sociology, anthropology to study and explain different areas of religion.
