PERS 2001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Ninian Smart, Emic And Etic, Gluttony
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System of communication that uses food items and associations to transmit messages. We use food to tell people who we are. E(cid:454): (cid:271)is(cid:272)uits a(cid:374)d grav(cid:455) message can change given the setting/environment. E(cid:454): (cid:862)guilt(cid:455) pleasures(cid:863), holida(cid:455)s, food tre(cid:374)ds, diets, (cid:862)foodies(cid:863) More generally: race, ethnicity, gender, class, ability, religion. Ninian smart: wanted to move from normative view. Secular religious studies: looking at religion from an objective perspective. Practical/ritual: practical/physical practice in a religion (bowing, praying) Experiential/emotional: feelings and the internal (feeling during conversion) Story/mythological: the original stories in a religion (adam & eve, greek, roman, creation stories, morality stories) Material: things, objects that are created from religion (art, media, etc. ) O(cid:373)ethi(cid:374)g classified as (cid:862)religio(cid:374)(cid:863) (cid:373)ay have (cid:373)a(cid:374)ifestatio(cid:374)s of o(cid:374)e or (cid:373)ore of these dimensions in varying combinations. Polythetic: multiple components to a definition, to what a religion is. Foodway: traditional customs or habits of a group of people concerning food and eating.
