RLG210Y1 Midterm: Study Guide for Test 1

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27 Jun 2011
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Lectu re 1: sociology study of religion made up of, social factors of religious beliefs, actions, significance of religion in social life and history, knowledge in social sciences are found objectively w/o bias. Nature of being , reality or existence and constitutively: what the world is and how it works, ex: true explanation = describing a desk"s moving atoms on a subatomic level, epistemology. Nature of knowledge; relationships between the known and knower: religion claims 2 levels of reality, mundane reality. dependent on ultimate super reality: higher order. Involves personal/universal forces: ex: karma, mana (cosmic power), chi/ dao. Includes spirits and god(s: difference between sociology and psychology, psychology > individual based, sociology > individual as social construct (i. e. group trends/ societal aspects) Individual merely part of a whole and that whole(societies) determine what the people(individuals) will be like. Idea of society is conceived in the mind: doesn"t have physical needs www. notesolution. com.