SA 100W Lecture 11: SA 100W - Religion Notes

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SA 100W
• Professor: Caitlin Gordon- Walker

Document Summary

Sa 100w religion (week 11, november 17, 2016) Sociology/anthropology: cultural relativism understanding that every culture of viewing the world is potentially valid (your perspective is not the only right one, self-reflexivity, ethnography method of research, living and working with the subject. Violence and exclusion (origins of all nations) Consolidation of national society in relation to both external and internal others . Development of a shared national culture through print capitalism (benedict anderson), invented traditions (eric hobsbawm and terrence ranger) and national education (ernest. Importance of national mythology and its associated ideas about national identity and values. *understand what kind of information to support arguments and how it fits into the framework* Be familiar with tensions between religion and secularism in canadian culture, historically and in the present. Discuss some of the tensions between discourses of religious tolerance and freedom of religion and those of secular values of equality and individual freedom.