RLG200H1 Lecture 8: RLG200H1F WEEK 8
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He went to java in indonesia and did field work. Rlg of ja(cid:448)a is isla(cid:373), a(cid:374)d i(cid:374) boll(cid:455) (cid:449)hi(cid:272)h pra(cid:272)ti(cid:272)ed . Was concerned of anthropology of religion and spoke against functionalism that saidreligion was shaped by society. He corrected that society is shaped by its religion. He wrote a lot of books. (cid:862)religio(cid:374) of ja(cid:448)a(cid:863) (cid:862)isla(cid:373) o(cid:271)ser(cid:448)ed(cid:863) observed islam in two different sites; in java and morocco. Whats i(cid:373)proa(cid:374)t for us is i(cid:374) 197(cid:1007) he pu(cid:271)lished (cid:862)the i(cid:374)terpretatio(cid:374) of (cid:272)ultures(cid:863). Not a new thing that he wrote but it was a collection of his essays and theoretical concerns, one of which is religion as a system of symbols. He was an american anthroglopoist and not a european. This means that he was more interested in culture than society. The distinction he made was that society was a term that was too heavily weighed towards material and scturucral forms of human beings.