RELIGST 2M03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Thanatology, Ethnocentrism, Chief Dan George
2 Mar 2020
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It includes ethical and moral questions, as well as various cultural consideration. It is very easy to make universal clams about death. Death is not the same experience for everyone. Everyone"s beliefs are different and create dif thinking of our own views. Look at a tradition or practice in depth. Tendency to view or judge other groups or cultures from the perspective of ones own, it is often negative. Ethnocentrism is making judgments about others in terms of ones own cultural assumptions and biases. The belief that each society should be understood in terms of its own cultural practices and beliefs. The view that all beliefs are relative to the individual in their own social context. A community built on top of the dead. Says a lot of people think it"s scary. 3x a day, laney must excume the dead. Places corpses in mass graves, unclaimed poor bodies. Take care of the corpses, live there for free.
