RLG211H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: The Great Tradition, Robert Redfield, Folk Religion
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The great tradition is cultivated in schools or temples; the little tradition works itself out and keeps itself going in the lives of the unlettered in their village communities. This was the folk religion of europe: other aspects of pagan religions were absorbed into official christianity. Think of one instance of folk religion and official religion in that tradition. Ioa: a god in haiti in voodoo****on final: voodoo practices revolve around rituals where one gets possessed by the ioa . Voodoo folk religion came about when christian religion (which these west. In haiti enslaved laborers on sugar plantation resisted official religion. And they"re (cid:272)ha(cid:374)gi(cid:374)g dra(cid:373)ati(cid:272)ally. (cid:863) -- marshall mcluhan, the medium is the massage (1967: mcluhan thought that print had created our modern world, what he called the. How does it orient you in the world: the same way the book does we come less aware of our surroundings.
