RLG100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Hindu Law, Edward Burnett Tylor, French Revolution
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Rlg lec2 9. 19. finished at 11am (right after class) Religion: connecting individual with divine, referencing to christianity. Travellers bring story to wider audience (mark polour) (they know there are lots of people around the world who do not know or believe in catholic. Europeans enchanter crusades 10 century to the 15th. 15th century passion for exploration, wanted to access to get a great market. Jesuits (fore front) to better commincole, blend in. Late 18th century: industrial revolution, french revolution, enlightenment (important period) Scientific, characteristic, general disenchantment with religion as in christianity, weded to superstition. Discovery of ideas, rejection of favoring religion, individual rights and freedom, fertile period of thought in the european history, and exploring objective. things should be reason and considered rationally but not faith. Trying to understand religion as a science, study its function and purpose. (the enlightenment give the technique)
