RLG100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Cultural Anthropology, Comparative Religion, James George Frazer
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Rlg100 - lecture 3 18th 19th century thinkers. A period of all kinds of intellectual events in europe that advanced the knowledge and understanding of other cultures, such as: industrial revolution, french revolution, american revolution, enlightenment. Colonialism: european land grabs, laying claims to land. Administrators gone to india to: administer the country, ensure the movement of goods, maintain political peace so as to not disrupt the commercial enterprise. Job given to british administrators: rule hindus by hindu law, and muslims by. A theory was evolved to explain similarities discovered among hindu, muslim, When people began to reject religion in favor of new ideas about individual rights, freedoms, rule of law, the world, etc. It was believed that knowledge should be informed by reason and rationality, not faith and lineage. Scientific revolution: greater interest in and dependence on scientific methods for explaining phenomena. Up until this period, it was the church that provided explanations for how the world worked.
