RELIG200 Lecture Notes - Stock Footage, Edward Said
7 Mar 2014
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Colonialism is imbued in the study of religion. A colony can only trade with its mother country, generally. A knowledge and consciousness of colonialism helps us understand the study of religions. Colonial terms, and their political import, is how we came to understand what religion gets to be. The reason we all attribute the same meanings to certain objects is because we share webs of meaning amongst us. An apple can suggest adam and eve, macintosh, newton (gravity), etc. Language in the functionalist sense is anything that allows pwople to communicate with one another or conveys meanings. di erent theories of representation: A clear distinction between the raw, physical stu in the world and the meanings we attribute it. Religion, for example, had a sense of independence and natural identity when coming into this class. Apple has no inherent link to gravity or knowledge of good and evil etc.
