RELG 252- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 49 pages long!)

• School: McGill University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELG 252
• Professor: Lisa

Document Summary

Understanding biases: western context, everyone has a bias, no one comes with a blank slate, hinduism as barbaric e. g. indiana jones and the. Book of sex": problem is distilling the religion into these contexts when it is so much bigger and encompasses so many beliefs etc. Constructed way of looking at hinduism (western, academic way of looking at hinduism: one text, one tradition (one specific way in which people practice hinduism, one theory or one theology (one way in which. Shiva), goddess worship: something that western scholarship has done while describing hinduism is in a monolithic way without much flexibility as to what it really is. Insider" perspective how a practitioner of a faith would see his or her own tradition, comes from a position of faith, own personal relationship with a religion not an outside understanding. Hinduism: a holy text is revealed to a practitioner by a deity, it is an absolute truth that has always been present, etic.