ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Bruno Latour, Clifford Geertz, Abrahamic Religions
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Themes: religion and the real, religion (enchantment) as a link to the real, religion as a link to beyond culture and society, religion and the social order. If we have time: god and other theisms, religion in university education. Undifferentiated?-: 3 and god said, let there be light , and there was light, 4 god saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness. The real is unformed, no categories, cannot be discussed. When language is added, then it becomes reality, what we make up, everything becomes categorized. Clifford geertz (1926-2006: religion is concerned with the really real . The enchanted world: the religious attitude (typically) recognizes sources of knowledge and other than. Reason: irrational (not a value judgement in this case) doesn"t come from reason, enchanted world: reality includes signs of (parts of) the real, bruno latour: to modern people the world may seem disenchanted.
