ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Abrahamic Religions, Idolatry, Joachim Lambek

• School: UTSG
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANT100Y1
• Professor: Ivan Kalmar

Document Summary

Religion: a link beyond reality (to the real) Religion: a link beyond culture (having to do with ideas and behaviours) Religion: a link beyond society (having to do with structures of relationships among people) The goal is not to judge or establish truth or falsehood. Recognize the nature and role of a religion in its cultural and social context. Discover what religion might mean as a general characteristic of human society. In the western world, this is a relatively new concept. In the middle ages, christians thought they were the only ones who followed a. To some extent, what is or is not religion is a matter of arbitrary definition. It may be that the very concept of religion is a modern, western one. None of the following exists in all religions: Dogma (principles that are authorized as true) Natural history (origin and evolution of nature)