RLGN 3110 Lecture 5: jan 26
20 Sep 2018
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Hunter- essential- primal human beings: direct experience of the sacred. Why is this concept of myth so popular? (similarity, sameness: simpli es, simple point, easy to describe, audience: conservative religionists that have questions, multiculturalists, cosmopolitans and liberals, comparative approach, pre-interpreted. Myth is naturalized-humans have always been myth makers, its not a product of human history, its always been there. They are universal, timeless and expressed as doing x, y, z. She doesn"t raise the fact that she is relying on scholars, and they aren"t questioned. By relying on scholars she could be supporting her theory with information that is completely off (dreamtime, which she talks about in one section, is completely wrong) De ne coping: at ease, help us deal with something, hidden from observation. Emotions are hidden from view, when you"re reading about the artifacts that armstrong is presenting you have no idea what the hunters or farmers were feeling.
