SOCI 3650 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Religious Pluralism, Placemaking, Virtual Community

• School: York University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI 3650
• Professor: Michael Nijhawan

Document Summary

Collaboration key learning objective in this class. Theme 1 keywords: visual culture, media, representation, audience reception and participation. Theme 2 keywords: ecology of the sacred, processes of place-making, ritual transfer. Theme 3 keywords: religion and social justice, social inequality, everyday religious speech and practices. Theme 4 keywords: religious pluralism, adaptation and transfers, orientalism, secularization, body and mind, eastern religions. Theme 5 keywords: religion and the internet, ritual agency, ritual change, virtual communities, religious minorities. Theme 6 keywords: religion and globalization, religion and violence, purity and danger, transgression, war, fundamentalism. Theme 7 keywords: religion and gender, feminism, islam, orientalism, paternalism, discourse on religious others. Why prayers: initial considerations, marcel mauss. A punk prayer: what have we learned from this. Sociology of religion: possibilities dilemma, no clear cut definition. Definitional dilemmas: how to sociologically approach religion", substantive, functionalist, symbolist definitions: how to make a distinction, attempts at synthesis.