SOC250Y1 Lecture : March 14, 2012 Lecture
Document Summary
Religious values, beliefs, practices and their social articulation in politics, kinship, economics, education and in war. Religion is often deeply implicated in group conflicts and violence: religion and group/ethnic identity (catholic/protestant, kew/muslim etc, conflicts over sacred space ( in holy land, demolition of babri mosque in ayodhya, said to be a. Ram temple site, expropriation of aboriginal sacred places: religion as institutional and cultural power/privilege forms of religious based domination and discrimination (religion and law, education, norms, values etc) War as a form of social action that requires divine backing/support: patron deities/blessings of priests/rituals to empower/preliminary divination/sacred tendence of the dead/claims to divine favor. Transcendent historical war as moral duty, ends justify means religious intensity and brutality against. Enemies of god (our rivaler, our opponents are godless or followers of demons satan) War gods and rise of state: ruling dynasties were military monarchs the boasts of the conquers: the.
