SRS2112 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Asha, Heteronormativity, Vaishya

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: SRS2112
• Professor: Shelley Rabinovitch

Document Summary

Theories of stonehenge: used for astronomical observations. Its orientation points towards where the sun rises at the summer solstice. Ceremonies take place to confirm the position of the rising sun. Ex: romans celebrate the winter solstice as the annual rebirth of the sun: burial site/ceremonial space. Excavations of a nearby neolithic village with similar arrangements suggests that stonehenge could have been used for the burial place of ancestors. Powerful gods, sacred places, life after death, the presence of the physical world of spirits that can interact with humans in various ways. Generally humans believe that the world consists of three levels. Transcendent: a place that is beyond the world that we know, beyond the human sphere. Immanent: the world on earth (opposite of transcendent) > god lives in heaven (transcendent) and the prophet jesus is (immanent) > these terms are used to explain how the divine is framed in religion: sky.