ANTH 209 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Secularism, Ventriloquism, Loud Music
11 Mar 2018
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"the puritan wanted to work in a calling; we are forced to do so" "for when asceticism was carried out of monastic with irresistible force" Everyone is caught in the process, fate of being part of mechanism to work. "in baster"s view the care for external goods should lie on the shoulders of the "saint like a light cloak, which can be thrown aside at any moment. " But fate decreed that the cloak should become an iron cage" (181) a cage that is a fate that we cannot escape. What was once animated by a religious fervour now cages you. Debate: whether modernity requires the process of secularization. Modernity requires: increasing structural differentiation of social spaces resulting in the separation of religion from politics, economy, science and so forth; >>you can engage fully in politics without ever encountering god. It is not god to be understood as politics, political decisions or government.
