RELS 331 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Social Distance, Yahweh, Vritra

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELS 331
• Professor: William Morrow

Document Summary

Ideas: identify major processes that characterize cases of religiously motivated violence, replicate the arguments of academic papers and book chapters in the form of short papers. Connections: explain particular cases of religiously motivated violence in terms of the major processes listed, explain particular cases of religiously motivated resistance to experience of violence in terms of the major processes listed. Extensions: analyze ideological factors implicated in contemporary discourse about religion and violence. The concept of religion : religion is inconceivable as analytical category unless there is something to de ne it over against or in contrast with, current discourses about religion(s), therefor, are products of the enlightenment: Separation of the church and the state. Separation of the public and the private. Contrast between the religious and the secular. The religious impulse: to extend the boundaries of community to include other-than-human agents or agencies (i. e. social construction, religions are not principally about morality.