POLS 150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Sacred Language, Religious Text, Language Shift

• School: University of San Diego
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 150
• Professor: Alan Segui

Document Summary

Vernacular languages becoming more insequential in defining nations. Transition away fr sacred languages towards vernacular languages. Occurs bc of capitalism & invention of printing press by inventor gluttenburg +tech advs. Enable religious text to be easily reproduced. Pols paper 8-10 pages about (not strict ab numbers) Master concepts on almond & verba: decline of sacred languages in exclusively defining religious communities. Broader conceptions of human life: trying to tell a story, but dk what words to use to tell the story, explorers were not intellectuals. Religious relativism defining good and evil, nad civilized savage: the way the story is told. Territorialization of faith foreshadows transition towards vernacular languages. In certain parts of the world, certain religions dominate. 1: what makes religion prominent is where the ppl are* hence language, demotion of usage of sacred language (ie latin) itself shift. Actual need for latin dissipated due to capitalism. Capitalism: economic classification of classic liberal ideology.