ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Clifford Geertz, Sociolinguistics, Spirit Possession
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Religion: a link beyond reality (to the real) The goal is not to judge or to establish truth or falsehood. Recognize the nature and the role of a religion in its cultural and social context. Discover what religion might mean as a general characteristic of human society. To some extent, what is or what is not religion is a matter of arbitrary definition. None of the following exists in all religion: 1 in the beginning god created the heavens and the earth. 2 now the earth was formless and empty darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the spirit of god was hovering over the waters (is this the real? undifferentiated?) 3 and god said let there be light and there was light. Religion is about the relationship between reality (as we discussed it) and something beyond it. Different religions may be seen as different imaginative and symbolic systems.
