SOC250Y1 Lecture Notes - Tlatoani, Feathered Serpent, Huitzilopochtli
Document Summary
Religion and war violet struggles between peoples and states. Religious values, beliefs, practices and their social articulation : in politics, in kinship, economics, education and in. Territory that is fought over based on the religious group"s claims that it is their sacred land: religion as institutional and cultural power/privilege forms of religious-based domination and discrimination. War as a form of social action that requires divine backing, support: patron deities. Blessings of priests, rituals to empower, preliminary divination, sacred tendance of the dead, claims to divine favour. Religions are either explicitly or implicitly ideologies of power, because the forces/beings they worship, propitiate, are. A society"s kriegsethik, its preferred style of collective raping, looting, burning, enslaving, and killing is typically interwoven with the prevailing religious mythology/worldview: vocabulary of acceptable motives, legitimate goals and opponents, approved ways of fighting. Certain types of religions place a prominent role in dehumanizing others waging war on them is legitimate.
