RELIGST 2EE3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Duke Kahanamoku, Bron Taylor, Origin Myth
21 Apr 2020
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30 multiple choice same type as on mid-term. 1 essay question choose from 2 options both big pictures topics. Multiple choice: only from mid-term to end of course, readings, lectures, av materials. Essay question draw on materials, theoretical concepts from throughout the course, before and after mid-term. Hand in via avenue, no need to submit separately to turnitin. This week article white water is ritual with scared. Feeling of being amerce in water: transcend in self. Forms of religion focused on nature or state. Nature is powerful and transcend feeling: symbols. Sacred centre is the embodied practice of surfing. Surfing = art, sport, spiritual: surfing fits here, art because the way you express yourself on wave, sports the way you compete, spiritual dimension connecting with water/ mother nature. Origin myth in polynesia, hawaii, repressed by christianity: origin myth of surfacing with idealic past. Ritualized behaviours: when trees cut to make board, when board dedicated.
