RELS 331 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Poisonous Pedagogy, Ethnocide, Supersessionism

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Splitting off: processes of identity formation involve learning that human beings have acceptable and unacceptable traits and behaviours. What is the role of the church in ethnocide: totalism: the religious tendency to speak to every part of a person"s life. Supersessionism: the noun that"s taken from the verb supersede, to be better than something, big challenge, ideological claim of various forms of monotheism, claim that their revelation supersedes another revelation, christianity claims the revelation of god through jesus supersedes. Basic thesis of the first half of the course: religiously motivated violence is connected to processes of. Othering: the myth of redemptive violence, good vs. evil, othering theory, us vs. them, dehumanization, blaming the victim, sacrifice, social indexing, economies of sacrifice, mimetic rivalry, collective persecution, heroic asceticism, processes of dissociation, colonialism, processes of displacement. Basis thesis of the second half of the course: the power of religious myths and rituals can exacerbate.

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