ANTH 209 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: American Enlightenment, Saul, Secularity
2 Apr 2018
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Like any cultural regimen of perception, it dulled an sharpened simultaneously (schmidt, 3) Enlightenment changed the way we perceive the world. Perception that we think as an immediate thing entails a process of interpretation. Means what i see can be different in cultural contexts. Certain tools are developed during the enlightenment that make things clearer- scientific reasoning for example. Not arguing the the enlightenment and science got us closer to truth. Asks how did the devout hear (prior to the american enlightenment) In sharpening their senses, they were able to hear revelation and speak what they learned through revelation. Practice of discipline that enabled people to stop listening to tavern banter so they could start listening to god. Argues that during the american enlightenment, these senses and voices changed. Voices of god were being heard by people and those that did and those that did were increasingly being understood as crazy. Story of the dulling of religious revivals.
