SRS 1112 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Ethnocentrism, Protestant Reformation, Idolatry

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This stuff can be divided into what religion is and what religion/religious people do . Religion is related to the sacred, search for significance. The (western) development of the notion of religions . The problem of ethnocentrism: where you start affects what you see and what you describe, how we got to where we are, increments. The medieval period: religion is identified with the beliefs and rituals of the christian church: superstition, heresy, idolatry / heathens. Protestant reform: associated with san individuals faith(belief), virtue(morals) and piety (devotion: faith ritual, virtue compliance to institutions, piety praying, reading scripture, rituals, behaviour. Enlightenment: described as a natural and universal phenomenon: sense of the divine, generalizable, notions of religion, still influenced by christianity. Creator rational idea: human impulse to seek god, influence of protestantism. Formal study of religion in the 19th century: the emergence of systems of classification and modes of study: hinduism, confucianism, isms occur.