POL114H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Sacred Language, Second Coming, Imagined Communities
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Backward peasants: russian peasants who have their own way of doing thing and resisted standardizing. Militaries: tomb of the unknown soldier, symbolizes anyone who fought and died for their country (cid:862)natio(cid:374)s? (cid:863) Means of production is no longer in hands of people and artisans, they are now mechanized and people are now traveling to work in these factories, no labor laws at that moment, living conditions are terrible. Global communities of black people, vegetarians, etc: something with a personal identity. Although (cid:449)e do(cid:374)"t k(cid:374)o(cid:449) e(cid:448)er(cid:455) (cid:373)e(cid:373)(cid:271)er (cid:449)e still feel a (cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:374)e(cid:272)tio(cid:374) to the(cid:373) Written word: was special, was sacred, not a mode of communication, not representations of gods of word, they were god"s word. Authority: high centers were closer to god, ruled by traditional authority, divine right. Religious community fragments: exploration, expands conception of world, territorializes (cid:862)religio(cid:374)(cid:863, demotion of sacred language, divine right questioned. Before 18th century: no (cid:862)past(cid:863), (cid:862)prese(cid:374)t(cid:863), (cid:862)future, eternal here and now, second coming.
