RE103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Immanence
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Important distinction: the academic study of religion vs. theology (cid:858) eligio(cid:374)(cid:859) Religion a hotly debated term across the humanities and social sciences. It developed recently, namely in the 18th century after the french revolution. Religion like contemporary love, has been shaped by modern developments, including (cid:858)secularizatio(cid:374)(cid:859) Secularization the separation of church and state and sometimes the loss/absence of religion, or how people live with the option of absences of religion, which can also be called secularity. As a tradition of knowledge and practice related to the transcendent (transcendent, that which is beyond the human).
