ANTH 2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Emic And Etic, Ethnocentrism, Unilineal Evolution
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Religion is a way that people give meaning to their lives. If you are not religion, you will probably never understand the emic perspective and. If you are religious, the etic perspective of your own religion may seem almost meanings of religion blasphemous. Religion is a cultural universal every culture has something that can be considered religion. Sets of beliefs concerning what we could call the soul. Sacred myths about origins and cosmology (study of the universe and humans" place in it) Religion: a shared system of myths, beliefs, symbols and rituals dealing with cosmology and the supernatural, which binds communities of people together. A problem of separation religion is not a discrete (separate, unconnected) category. Religion is not something that can be separated from the rest of a culture. When we categorize something as religious, we have to be aware that it may also be other things.
