RELI 2110 Lecture Notes - Bruce Lincoln, Critical Inquiry, Cultural Relativism
17 Feb 2014
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Many who would not think of insulating their own or their parents" religion against critical inquiry still afford such protection to other people"s faiths, via a stance of cultural relativism. One can appreciate their good intentions, while recognizing a certain displaced defensiveness, as well as the guilty conscience of western imperialism bruce. Lincoln, method & theory in the study of religion vol. Symbols chai (life), 18, star of david, menorah (not channukiah! Derived from latin: lig: to tie, to bind (ligature) re: again, to repeat. Common sense definition: humanity"s response to the divine. Jews don"t think of god in the same way as christians. Being invested in the faith, and belief invested in the study study of faith vs. faith. Assumptions that ground the academic study of religion. Culture as a process of world-construction from a certain perspective. Religion as a particular mode of constructing worlds of meaning (a) worldview is what people believe to be important aspects of reality.
