REL 2300 Lecture 1: relexam1
Document Summary
A discourse whose concerns transcend the human, temporal, and contingent, and that claims for itself a similarly transcendent status. A set of practices whose purpose is to propose a proper world and and/or proper human subjects (as defined by a religious discourse) A community whose members construct their identity w/ reference to to a religious discourse and its attendant practices. An institution that regulates the other three , reproducing them over time and modifying them when necessary, while asserting their eternal validity and transcendent value. Sacred: realm of the extraordinary, apparently purposeful, but generally imperceptible forces. Profane: everyday world of seemingly random, ordinary, unimportant occurrences. Immanent: experience of sacred reality as present in the world. Transcendent: belief that sacred reality exists outside of the material universe. No recognition of a god (ex. certain forms of buddhism) Faith: religion tells us truths about the ultimate nature of reality. Materialist: all religious truths are human truths and only the material world exists.
