RELS 205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Camel Hair, Phenome, Bruce Lincoln
9 May 2019
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Definition/categories are important: from borges the emperor"s animals, classified as, belonging to the emperor, embalmed, trained, pigs, sirens, fabulous, stray dogs, included in this classification, trembling like crazy. Categories is important because the world is indeterministic and ubiquitous, up to us to create meaning/construct the world through categories that we use must reflect back to consideration of the categorizer. 2: study of religion is key to the study of human experience in its multitude forms. Theology: first type of analysis/grammar of religious language, belief and practice: co-development of religious belief and practice and articulation of relevant and correct understanding of beliefs and practices. Anthropology: develops from encounter with other: notion of anthropos can only develop in light of non-anthropoi. 3: study of human individual and societies in their various physical, evolutionary and structural/ relational forms, anthropology of religion tends to consider origin and development of religion from earliest instances to present.
