RELG 456 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Religious Liberalism, World War I, Neo-Orthodoxy

• School: McGill University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELG 456
• Professor: Jim Kanaris

Document Summary

Discussion of the assignment: could be handed in on thursday. Two trends of studies of religion: explanation, description. Always refers to material source that provides meaning. Organizes data that elucidates religious expressions according to material basis. Assumption: religion is other than it appears to be. 18th c. philosophers like hume and rousseau, feuerbach. Religion is portrayed critically from outside search for biological and psychological causes. It"s better to be irreligious when studying religion. Classical and contemporary sources tend to become reductionism: religion is nothing but a desire to satisfy certain biological drives. Combines emphasis on human experience and regions insights. Organizes data relating to experiences with religious symbolism. Classical sources tend to essentialism: religion is feeling , intuition imagination . Three traditions of modern psychology of religion: anglo-american tradition, german, french, anglo-american tradition. Factors encouraging a-a school: religious liberalism (schleiermarcher) - undermine the authority of relg/word of.