RS100 Lecture 1: RS 100 week 1.docx

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RS100
• Professor: Doris Jakobsh

Document Summary

Sociology of religion focus on social behavior generallt modern, developed, literate societies social origins and function of religion study of the way religion interacts with other dimensions of our social experience how human social life changes religion how religion transforms human social behavior max weber psychology of religion exploration of the psychological dimensions of religious phenomena james, freud, and jung wrote in this collective unconsciousness, then become insititutionalized into religion philosophy of religion love of wisdom, and knowledge philosopphers of religion and truth values of notions of ultimate reality and beliefs: thomas aquinas (summa theologica) Phenomenology of religion: words about phenomena that which is observable concerned only with description goal: to portray religion in its own terms rather than reduce or explain it in terms of some other discipline, mircea eliade ( the sacred and the profane) rejected reductionist approaches in studying eligion, sayng religious phenomenon cannot be reduced to a product of culture and history.