RLG100Y1 Lecture : Methods for the Study Religion; Presuppositions of the Western Traditions
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Methods for the study religion; presuppositions of the western. Traditions: the history of religion is the history of european cultures, christians understood themselves to be practicing what they took to be religion, early theories of religion also wanted to understand religion in a scientific way, a. September 15th, 2010. way detached from the religion"s presentation of itself, and were interested in observing religion from the outside, through what they saw as the lens of reason. The biases emerging from the period of the enlightenment: concerned with the application of reason, the application of scientific method to all phenomena. Max mueller (scholar): early sanskrit (language of ancient india) scholar: translating & editing the sacred books of the east , purposed that the oldest religious scriptures in the world were the vedas (belonging to hindu tradition) As a kind of reverend worship of attitude to fire, to the sky, to the rain.
