RELI 108 Lecture Notes - Substantivism, Osama Bin Laden, Essentialism
3 Sep 2013
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Osama bin laden (1957-2011) and george w. bush both put religion first. I wish to explain to him what it is, i know not. One type of religion is the truth, everything else is religion eg. christianity is the truth, everything else is religion ie not true. Cuts out many religions which have no supernatural beings. Look not at content but at the way that ideologies and practices function in various contexts to provide an overarching structure of meaning in everyday social life. Often expand religionn" by including ideologies such as marxism. Substantivist + functionalist are usually essentialist in that they regard religion as a thing out there in the world, a basic, transhistorical, and transcultural component of human social life identifiable by its content or function. We need to understand how religion is used in societies. Minor concept for early christians- doesn"t correspond to any single biblical concept.
