ANTHROP 1AB3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Zombie, Marvin Harris, Liminality
20 Mar 2016
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Religion exists in all societies (universal), but takes different forms. Anthony wallace (1965: 5) defines religion as belief and ritual concerned with supernatural beings, powers, and forces . Wallace"s definition is problematic, because not all societies create such a division between natural and supernatural assumes universal category. Supernatural and that all religious beliefs relate to the supernatural realm. Non-western, indigenous cosmologies are often called animistic , if not. It would be more accurate to call them ecological , that is, not supernatural. (astor-aguilera, 2010) Many peoples do not see spiritual beings and. Forces as a part of nature ex. Emile durkheim suggested that religion deals with distinction between the. Profane and sacred (normal vs. extraordinary) in order to avoid imposing the western worldview on others. Difficult to define, because it caries from place to place. In modern western societies, religion tends to be a defined sphere dealing with spiritual matters.
