REL 1000 : Test 1
Document Summary
For test know: key terms, tophat questions. What is religion: term you understand but cant explain, the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal god or gods. Edward burnett tylor: animistic theory, belief about the dead. A belief in the real presence of a spiritual being in a material object. Primitive culture: when someone dreams about a dead person, that is actually that persons soul, counts for all of the religions. Max muller: based on study of hinduism, nature worship- personalization of natural forces, mythology. Sigmund freud: oedipal origins, where the son kills his father out of jealousy for their mothers, father out of guilt becomes their god that they now worship, mass delusion, paranoid wish fulfillment. Hard wired for religion: possibility that religion could be real, freud and jung"s theories are universal but individualistic. Meaning its something that happens to everyone but its not a cultural construct.
