RLG101H5 Lecture 3: RLG101 – Lecture 3
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Belief: last week: problems with thinking that all religions are primarily about belief, history of emphasis on belief when thinking about religion, theories od belief, cognitive vs. affective beliefs (gombrich , habitus (bourdieu, bell) Five types of rituals given on page 131. Grimes: ritualization transpires as animated persons enact formative gestures in the face of receptivity during crucial times in founded places. Hughes-freeland: human experience and perception in forms which are complicated by the imagination, making reality more complex and unnatural than more mundane instrumental sphere of human experience assume . Bell: ritualization is a matter of various others, for creating and privileging a qualitative distinction between the sacred and the profane, and for ascribing such distinctions to realities though to transcend the power of human actions. Rappaport: the performance of more or less invariant sequences of formal acts and utterance not entirely encoded by the performance. Ritual ways that primary ways religion is perform and enacted.
