RLG211H5- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 38 pages long!)
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Variety of different kinds rotating around the globe. Signified: your idea of a dog, fluffy thing, slobber with a tongue. Introducing typology of three different types: index: the physical trace of the referent, icon: the icon physically resembles the signified or referent, symbol: the symbol has an arbitrary relationship to the signified and referent. The insider/outsider problem in the study of religion. Discursive: effects and consequences, interested in politics, politics of representing camels in the dessert. Semiotics as the study of how signs come to mean things. Believer is a film that shows groups of people coming together. Unit 2: from folk culture to mass culture. History as the study of change over time. How do media, religion change over time or both change over time. All people should be able to read the bible on their ordinary language. Medium changed religion: printing press, no modern world without the printing press. Twitter and social media shapes the arab spring.
