SOCI 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Evolutionism, William Robertson Smith, Melanesians
1 Sep 2016
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What are some theoretical positions on religion? (paradigms: religion and meaning. Meaning refers to the interpretation of situations and events in terms of some broader framework: three things seem to distinguish man from all living creatures: Although some observers have detected the parallels of ritual in some birds, mammals and other organisms, no one has seriously suggest the presence of myth or theology: religion and communism. Even communist society before parstoka was not without religion. There is evidence that traditional religion remained in the soviet union between 1918 and 1989: looking into religion . When we look at definitions of religion they vary in nature and content but they usually fall into two categories: individual and societal: william james claims . Religion involves feelings, acts, and experiences of individual men in their solitude, so far as they apprehend themselves to stand in relation to whatever they consider the devine: durkheim"s defined .
