RELG 456- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 44 pages long!)

• School: McGill University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELG 456
• Professor: Jim Kanaris

Document Summary

Ideology critique philosophical, systematic developed social conciseness ex. Hegel, feuerbach reaction to phase 2 yet still modern because it is concerned with. Humans a hyper crique in a political environment; emphasis on archaeology, cultural studies; religion seen as an ideology, being alienated. Religion and ideological mentalities form hand in hand. In case of natural religion, other religions are compared with a fuller self- consciousness (universalism) that is inherited in abrahamic traditions. Asian issues/methods/types of understanding were compared as inferior to. What are some reasons to hold such traditions: therefore, the nature of relg is this heightened sense of self re ection, in an intellectually responsible manner. Therefore, orientation in relation to the world changed. A subject of human endeavour, not really supernatural, just an inclination towards knowledge. Plato identi ed that theology belonged to the poet class, meaning it does not embody true knowledge (unlike science), merely an opinion. Theology is not of the rational structure of universe.