RLGA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Profit Maximization, Complex System, Secularism
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What is modernity: secularization, less and less control over the span of or lives. Liberation: more rights for individuals, more freedom may threaten traditional structures, berger"s five dilemmas of modernity , abstraction real existence of individuals. Overpopulation: futurity obsessed with looking ahead/ forward. Majority of humans" lives have not been documented. Micro component of a large piece: liberation autonomy. People can choose how to follow religion: secularization secularity. Smaller nation states that have autonomy: science based technology as source for images for life and its possibilities, bureaucratic rationalism. Complex systems require management and mutate as a life of its own. Takes longer to do something: profit maximization. Primary focus displace concerns for humans: secularization trivialization of religion. Other key concepts: christianity as a paradigm, conceptually dangerous, colonialism, who can build faster british, why do some groups think they have the right to implement their traditions in some parts of the world.
