ANTHROP 1AB3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Richard Dawkins, Natural Selection, Project Camelot
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The problem: most people do not view their own identities as shaped by culture. Talking about our entities as its coursing through our brains. That you think they can"t change, static, fixed, makes it easy to label others as deviant, different , other etc. Mark juergensmeyer, the global rise of religious nationalism . An ideology that combines traditional religious beliefs in divine law and authority with the modern notion of the nation-state. For religious people, they make arguments that concepts of secularism democracy capitalism, can"t be really understood without concepts of religious ideology. Around the world, there is a anti-globalization sentiment especially in response to rapid westernization. When people are stressed, they look for alternatives, how do we cope best as a culture with these changes, economically and our society so the rise in religious nationalism. What some religious people believe is that secularism is ethnocentric.