ANT100Y1 Lecture 14: ANT100 Y1 Religion, What's Really Real. Date, Febrary 7, 2019
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Lecture theme: anthropology and religion, religion: a link to beyond reality (to the real, religion: a link beyond culture, religion: a link beyond society, ritual. Let there be light, and there was light: god saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness. Re-link what: suggestion: reality with the real, religion is about the relationship between reality (as we discussed it) and something beyond it, the ineffable real, different religions may be seen as different imaginative and symbolic systems. 1926-2006: religion is concerned with the really real . Is it possible to define religion: probably everything we call religion is about re-linking with the real, but not everything that is about re-linking with the real world necessarily be called religion . Identifying wrong forms of religion: a major concern in abrahamic religions especially, superstition aims to obtain favourable results from the scared sphere (from outside lacanian.