SOC250Y1 Lecture Notes - Omnipotence, Ludwig Feuerbach, Social Control Theory
Document Summary
Excuse: always evolving, social life exhibits tremendous diversity, inner connection to what they study. Max weber: vershtaen(?: can also be a way of not seeing. Bring some things to light and leave others behind. Most theoretical perspectives on religion offer variations on 2 fundamental insights: religion as projection/reflection. Representations/understandings of the divine or transcendent correspond to aspects of particular social-historical conditions. Human beings are reflecting upon themselves in imagining the divine realm. With projection theory, the divine is modelled after the human order. Find reflection and legitimation in the depiction of a divine order: xenophanes (c. 570-475 bce) Homer and hesiod have attributed to the gods everything that is a shame and reproach among humans, stealing and committing adultery and deceiving the other. But morals consider that the gods are born and that they have clothes and speech and bodies like their own.
