RS170 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Culture Shock, Rhetorical Device, Karen Armstrong

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RS170
• Professor: Siobhan Chandler

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Functional: what religion does provides frameworks, meaning, unity e. g: marx: religion pacifies us ( opiate of the masses ) often used by sociologists of religion religion is the seeking of the transcendent meaning that gives our lives value and puts us in touch with the deeper currents of existence religion helps people to cultivate an appreciation of holiness and humanity and teaches us to respect the sacredness of life and the world. karen armstrong, battle for god. Formal: what religion consists of text, dreams, symbols, food often used by history of religions scholars formal/functional: religion is a unified system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things, that is to say, things set apart and forbidden beliefs and practices which unite into one single moral community called a church, all those who adhere to them emile durkheim, elementary forms of religious life (1912) Technology: applied science, but not morally objective .