Religious Studies 1023E Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Religion In Israel, Swastika, Caspian Sea

• School: Western University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: Religious Studies 1023E
• Professor: Jonathan Geen

Document Summary

Learn about new religions by studying sacred texts (history), third person reports (modern forms), engage in conversation, step back and observe, first person reports (modern forms), archeology (history) Became very interested in sanskrit when he moved to india. Discovered big family of languages (indo-european family) o. Not just language, potentially cultural similarities as well o. Huge uproar because people believed that the tower of babel story from christianity was the prevailing theory of language creation. If all these places have similar languages in some ways all these people must have lived together at 1 point w/1 language: original language referred to as indo-european of proto indo-european. People lived between the black sea and caspian sea. Decided to trace geographical and biological words for certain things and see what these words describe. Language can be one of the most important tools in unraveling history.