ANTHROP 1AB3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Human Terrain System, Richard Dawkins, Atheism
12 Apr 2017
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For lot of religious nationalist, there is this fear of what is perceived to be expanding sense of secularism ! Views secularism as ethnocentric, notion that any government is really predicted upon somebody"s values, religious sociopolitical values of dominant culture (in canada- british forms of governance) ! Also argue the expanding numbers of ppl who proclaim to be agnostic/atheist occupy high levels of powers have been met with a lot of ethnocentrism ! Ie. atheists have been smug & ethnocentric; association with religion as somehow backwards! A lot of secular nationalists around the point, point to work of richard dawkins (very famous british social evolutionist) ! He wrote ny times bestseller book in 2006; biggest supporters of atheism/agnosticism ! From perspective of religious nationalist view it as ethnocentric ! Says atheists are more capable of rational thought (ethnocentric) ! Ppl make assumption all secular society has ethnocentric ways ! For religious nationalists, they go about re-religionizing politics!
