RELS 203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Defamiliarization

• School: University of Calgary
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELS 203
• Professor: James Apple

Document Summary

Four ways of approaching the problem of insider/outsider. Cultural or social identity: sharing in the cultural identity, being an insider/outsider circles around what your cultural identity is. You cannot understand the context if you are not an insider, a product of your upbringing and connection to a place, people, or society. Religious identity: believing in religious identity, being an insider/outsider circles around what your religious beliefs are. You do(cid:374)"t (cid:374)e(cid:272)essarily have to be of the same societal or cultural identity, you can be an insider as long as you have the same religious beliefs. Allows for a movement into the insider position from someone who may have previously been an outsider. Academic formulations: see insiders and outsiders as two roles one can play with respect to the same object. Representing near as if it were far defamiliarization. Looki(cid:374)g at so(cid:373)ethi(cid:374)g you"re (cid:272)lose to i(cid:374) a (cid:373)ore separated, distance manner. Representing to ourselves the far as if it were near familiarization.