Religious Studies 1023E Lecture Notes - Informal Fallacy, Falsifiability, Polytheism

• School: Western University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: Religious Studies 1023E
• Professor: Corrine Walsh

Document Summary

Anthropology- the science that deals with the origins, physical and cultural development, biological characteristics, and social customs and beliefs of humankind. The science of the origin and development of the universe. 1. the failure to indentify an emotion, practice or experience under description which subject identifies with. 2. to describe a religious experience in non-religious words is to mis-describe it. An explanation of a religious experience that might no meet the approval of the religious subject studied. A religion is a unified system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things, i. e. , things set apart and forbidden--beliefs and practices which unite in one single moral community called a church, all those who adhere to them . Functionalism in regard to religious studies, is the analysis of religions and their various communities of adherents using the functions of particular religious phenomena to interpret the structure of religious communities and their beliefs. Gordon allport makes a distinction between mature religion and immature religion.