RE100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Symbolic Power, Deed, Formal Methods
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But to ignore such realities is to ignore an important part of the history and sociology of religion: the issue of how religions operate in the world. Colonialism is control of people, territory, or country, or resources by a foreign (usually invading or settler) people. A pro(cid:272)ess that features all of the follo(cid:449)i(cid:374)g . Informal methods (behaviours, ideologies, institutions, policies and economies: concerns land and resources. It requires a specific ideology by the colonizer, who must imagine the colonized to be less rational, less worthy, or even less human than the colonizer. It always involves violence, including physical, structural and symbolic violence. Colonialism is not just something of the past. Colonizers" ideologies (cid:272)o(cid:374)sist of (cid:374)u(cid:373)erous (cid:373)yths a(cid:271)out the (cid:272)olo(cid:374)ized, ofte(cid:374) fou(cid:374)ded i(cid:374) untruthful, deceptive, insulting, marginalizing, and irrational logics. De la casas" peers the people the crown depended on to finance their wars, conquered and exploited the peoples of newly-found america.
