RLG101H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Pierre Bourdieu, Mircea Eliade, Ludwig Feuerbach
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What we say/think we believe vs. what our acions indicate we believe. What is the afecive belief of timon + pumba : timon and pumba say and think that they believe in hakuna matata. Iniially their behaviour also shows they believe in hakuna matata. However when their loved ones are in trouble their acions show that they do believe they have responsibiliies. Cultural context of peoples lives: impact on our believes, individual choice/ agency. Simba is exposed to 2 cultures that inluence his beliefs. Our beliefs may be afected by our habitus but we can and should choose to live up to our responsibiliies. How speciic beliefs are viewed and praciced. Way of solving this issue is to use the work of pierre bourdieu. Pierre bourdieu, whose approach is labelled as pracice theory". Basis of this pracice theory is his concept of habitus, which broadly refers to the cultural context in which people live and pracice their lives.
