ANTHROP 1AB3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Richard Dawkins, Atheism, Ethnocentrism

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTHROP 1AB3
• Professor: Karen Mc Garry

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Judeo-christian notions of morality: problem with secularism religion and religiosity = primitive, uncivilized, not modern, undemocratic, and adherents labeled as others, religious nationalists say that secularists are smug and ethnocentric. Richard dawkins argues that: religion is not equated with morality, children should not be enculturated i(cid:374)to their pare(cid:374)ts" religio(cid:374, natural selection and other scientific theories explain most of the living world/cosmos, atheists are critical, independent thinkers. God delusion name is pretty fucking ethnocentric yanno. Some religious nationalisms: are revitalization movements per(cid:272)ei(cid:448)ed (cid:272)risis of e(cid:454)isti(cid:374)g (cid:862)order,(cid:863) e(cid:373)erge(cid:374)(cid:272)e of (cid:272)haris(cid:373)ati(cid:272) leader, desire for territorializatio(cid:374), re(cid:448)italizatio(cid:374) of (cid:862)a(cid:374)(cid:272)ie(cid:374)t (cid:449)a(cid:455)s(cid:863, but often, a new religion is formed. The human terrain system us army hired civilian anthropologists and embedded them with us troops in iraq and afghanistan. Increase cross-cultural understanding: discern needs of ordinary afghans/iraqis, reduce kinetic force. -ethics code of professio(cid:374)al (cid:272)o(cid:374)du(cid:272)t regardi(cid:374)g (cid:449)hat (cid:455)ou (cid:272)a(cid:374) a(cid:374)d (cid:272)a(cid:374)"t do as a (cid:272)ultural a(cid:374)thropologist.