RELI 1730 Lecture Notes - Lecture 94: Christian Fundamentalism, Millenarianism, Monism

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Religion
• Course: RELI 1730
• Professor: Richard Mann

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Outsider; people who see the religion from the outside. He argues that you should view the religion from the outside instead of inside. Believes that insiders view the religion as either positive or negative. Apologetics (everything my religion does is good or nice) Polymics (everything that everybody else does is wrong. ) Believes that insider perspectives want to dominate the sphere. Prejudice afflicts both the insider and the outsider. The notion of insider and outsider as ideal types. To be religious before 1500 ce meant one was practicing member of a christian community, or that one had faith or piety. Shift in europe and religion 1: the protestant reformation (beginning in the early. For reformers true religion was based in the interpretation of primary texts (the bible), faith and belief. The stuff of religion becomes viewed as the impediment to a spiritual life. Catholic and protestant polemics become part of an emerging definition of.