RLG100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Babylonian Captivity, Ketuvim, Tanakh
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15th century passion for exploration, wanted to access to get a great market. Late 18th century: industrial revolution, french revolution, enlightenment (important period) Scientific, characteristic, general disenchantment with religion as in christianity, wedded 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 according to faith. Trying to understand religion as a science, study its function and purpose. (the enlightenment give the technique) Religion view is looked in a scientific way in where the origin come from, function, or how it works. try to understand the origin of things, try to identify. Immerge of anthropology, start to look at the phenomena of religion and try to understand the origin of religion. common thing is that scholars contributed very limited value on religion (an outside view) Animism: core of religion is belief in spirits revolved around.
