RELI 2732 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Li Tieguai, Memento Mori, Taphophobia
23 May 2019
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By the end of today"s class, you should be able to: Define: memento mori, thanatology, iron crutch li, taphophobia, brain death, phenomenology, epoch , cosmology, soteriology, discourse community. Explain: the buddhist parable of the mustard seed, the wari explanation of mortuary cannibalism, the characteristics of religious ritual, van gennep"s rite of passage, Consider: different definitions of death (and the significance thereof), issues with the comparative study of religion. Vanity of vanities, says the teacher, vanity of vanities! A generation goes, and a generation comes, but the earth remains forever. The sun rises and the sun goes down, and hurries to the place where it rises. All things are wearisome; more than one can express; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, or the ear filled with hearing. What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done; there is nothing new under the sun. Positioned at the intersection of religious studies and thanatology.
