ANTH 209 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Mama Lola, Evolutionary Anthropology, Edward Burnett Tylor
11 Mar 2018
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History of religion; different definitions throughout time looking at changing definitions allows us to see religion as changing for different people. Point: religion is something that is in the eye of the beholder: "religion; is not a native term it is a term created by scholars for their intellectual purposes and therefore is theirs to define. Dispositions; turning inwards; internal feelings and relationships to a being. Durkheim: about being relative to sacred things; structural component: every society has something that it holds sacred; this is what societies have in common; this is also the essence of religion, but what is actually sacred differs. Geertz - concerned with symbols and the problem of meaning. In the general enthusiasm of that time, things that were by nature purely secular (not religious) were transformed by public opinion into sacred things. American anthropologist trained in literary theory and philosophy before anthropology in.
