RS260 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Bruce Lincoln, Vedas
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A discourse that deals with something that transcends humanity. Includes a set of practices (can be rituals) that have a goal to establish a proper world or proper human subjects. A community wherein people construct their identity and partake in the discourse and practices. Includes an institution (that does not have to be a physical structure) that regulates the discourse and practices and community and enforces the tradition of the religion. Religious studies: learning about religion from an outside perspective. Religious education: learning how to properly be a part of a religious tradition. Metaphysics: beyond nature ; different from religious studies in how it does not always involve things that we would call religious . Theology: thinking philosophically with the assumption of predetermined beliefs (not objective).
