ANTB20H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Traditional Medicine, Prosperity Theology, Circular Reasoning
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Lecture #5 supranational governance: belief and knowledge are different ways of truth and different ways of knowing. e. g. , it can be objectively cold outside, but one person will feel cold, while another person will not. Piot argues that the new churches are story-machines . Which stories from the new churches animate the imagination: healing, retribution and gratitude were story themes. The resonating pentecostal church participated in physical healing: a radical rupture is imminent. It"s not surprising that people talk about the end of times when the current times are so bad. It is appealing that a new world is coming when the current world is not that good: we are disvaluing tradition, throwing out the old, and coming in with the new. In the film, one of the leaders says that as they move forward, there are some things that they must leave behind, including ideas of witchcraft, sorcery, and animal sacrifice, if they want to develop the world.
