RE207 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Ethnography, General Order, Ideal Type
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After analyzing clifford geertz"s religion as world-view and ethic and more specifically his section on religion as cultural system, i found a variety of key concepts. The best way to go over these key themes is through clifford geertz"s definition of religion divided into five parts. Symbols can be images, objects, actions or events in which they hold some sort of meaning to an individual. Acts and experience certain types of feelings during certain events. 4 moods and motivations create our ethos. Thirdly, it formulates conceptions of a general order of existence . Religious symbols reassure humans with some type of meaningful order. Next is trying to cover up these conceptions with facts. 5 in order for one not to fall apart during a crisis, they must first embrace the symbol and believe that it reflects the. Permanent nature of reality . 6 through their belief in the symbol, all societies create rituals. 7 a ritual is an action out of a symbol.
