RE104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Mircea Eliade, Oral Torah, Creation Myth
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Day 4 creation, satan and the fall in judaism, christianity and islam. William e. paden & academic study of religion. Analyze patterns of differences: respect for religious facts as phenomena, analysis of patterns, understand religious contexts, identify what it is about religious facts that make them religious, avoid comparison to our own practices and beliefs. Study all religions equally, show differences: bracket one(cid:495)s own biases. Religion is an expression in action and representation in sacred. Religious systems shape the way ppl conceive and construed the world describe the various and sometimes dramatic breakthroughs of the sacred into the. Religious myths are stories believed to be true by a community of people. They are meaningful, symbolic narratives, basic values of religious rules. Book of genesis and the torah in the bible. 1st book of the jewish torah: (ebrew: (cid:498)to teach(cid:499, actual, physical scrolls, 1st 5 books. Discipline of torah (constantly reinterpreted: written and oral torah.
