REL 2029 Lecture : Complete Notes
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Establish powerful, evasive, and long lasting moods and motivations in men by 3. Formulating conceptions of a general order of existence and 4. Clothing these conceptions, with such an aura of factuality that the moods and motivations seem uniquely realistic: we don"t study the history of god, we study the history of the idea of god, 1. When did the first person think, hey, there is a god : 2. We try to understand the ideas behind religion, and we look at economic influences at the time: 3. Not trying to prove whether or not there is a god. Topocosm is associated with. : egypt, egyptians corpses had to be buried in the holy land, type of heaven might have looked like to them, essentially, egypt. It"s about the individual, an individual covenant between you and god. Now, it is beginning to be done on an individual level and have your own personal relationship with him.
