REL 2000 : Exam 2 Study
Document Summary
Inner-worldly asceticism : physical pain other religions. Background: taught history of religions a u of chicago, childhood experience of being transported into a transcendent world , looked back with a feeling of nostalgia . A longing for a beautiful space of otherworldly perfection : sacramental experiences , symbols, and archaic religion are, this feeling is central to religion, studied in india central. That"s religion: science = how a gun works. Critique: rejected reductionalism, rejected evolutionary view of culture, sympathetic toward religion. Individual personalities: a social system, a cultural system, cultural systems exist outside the individual but still influence the. Interpretation of cultures individual: we have to understand intentions, made up symbols, ex: wink vs. twitch, includes public meaning. It makes people feel things and want to do things based in what we think is good/right: formulating conceptions of a general order of existence and connecting ethos and worldview they feel they should do, provides ultimate meaning.
