Religious Studies 2140 Study Guide - Final Guide: Essenes, Sadducees, Cud

• School: Western University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: Religious Studies 2140
• Professor: Halberstam

Document Summary

Inward acculturation: taking practices or symbols of another culture and making them your on, gets rid of authenticity: everything is borrowed. Connection to ia: both take an academic approach to define religion: acculturation- comes from culture, ritualization: we create and experience it. Abraham: beginning of monotheism- 3 religions trace back to him- never considered a. Jew: chosen by g-d to lead the people, g-d calls him, blesses him, promises him things and makes him the figure head. Who is a jew? (persian province of judea) One scroll for judeans: took on central importance in the culture- assumptions started. Creation: two different creation stories in the torah, worded forth" by g-d theo-centric, garden with adam and the serpent anthro-centric (man- centered) Therefore you are to observe the sabbath, for it is holy to you. Heaven, so can still come back: by g-d, there to witness and bring the notion of g-d and heaven to the child.