GASB30H3 Lecture Notes - Culture Of Asia
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Introduction: approaches to the understanding of religion and society. Also difficult to define culture; problematic; just as the definition of religion would be. Shared or integrated patters of values, beliefs, behavior performances = culture. This means that people within a given society/institution share common values; believe that something is correct/a value that is important. May not be because of nutritional or scientific value. But rather, it"s because of their own shared beliefs about pork. Many indians never eat beef; cow = sacred animal - thus never eat the animal. Then there are certain groups that are vegetarian; taking meat is cruel to other animals. -> thus, just using food as an example, we have different values of what we should do. If you"re living in a community that has a shared sense of beliefs; you are living in a culture. In other words, we are all influenced by the way were brought up.
