IGS 10a Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Benjamin Barber, Pope Francis, Mcworld
26 Aug 2016
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5 short answers (10 min each), no fill-ins, no multiple choice. That"s the only reason we"re interested in this stuff. Shapes morals-laws-structure (social institutions emerge from culture) Cultural coherence is a real thing/concern; means of preserving social coherence. This social coherence can be seen as under threat barber describes what could threaten the culturl coherence. What contemporary threats to the coherence of countries" social order does benjamin. Mcworld will not provide you with real sustenance- it"s superficial! Jihad is the infleunce from below, exclusive tribalistic identity. Barber starts where we left off with politics (left off with spread of nation-state around the world). Civic nation-state has a culture, it"s not just a collection of political institutions- there is a national identity. Threatens by insisting on ethnic or religious sub-identities of that nation-state. Arguably the two genuinly global religions (everyone can be adherents) Everyone was born with original sin because of adam and eve.
