RLGA01H3 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Cultural Universal, Thomas Luckmann, Meddle
Document Summary
Issues with belief, symbolic forms, and relationship between belief and ritual: giving natural forces personalities, names and characteristics. 19th century armchair: more on texts not for participant observation. Began with humans experience with natural wonders (cid:498)science of religion(cid:499) Muller &lb: role of emotions in the psychic life of native peoples. 19th century armchair religion as a (cid:494)belief(cid:495) - belief is central to religion. 2 concepts: souls of individual creatures continued existence after death, other spirits, belief in souls, afterlife. Deeper motives"" of all people = the belief in spiritual beings". Natives yelling at a hurricane to make it change course. Not actually attributing a soul or a spirit to the storm. Similar to muller: linked to objective forces, ethnocentric - evaluating other peoples and cultures according to the standards of one"s own culture, christianity. Similar to frazer: beliefs, moods, and motivations. Cultural systems: a way of life learned by and shared with other members of that group.
