RE220 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Religious Music, Low Culture, Commodity Fetishism
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Bob marley : rostifari, love, peace, rebellion. Haile selassie (tafari makonnen: considered by marley to be black god incarnate. Exodus (song: fathers land, go back to africa, babylon - oppressive society, marley wrote to appeal to white americans. Wrote songs like rock and roll rather than jamaican reggae. Typology: groups you can break religion into. The modern era: religious music = not popular, cecil b demille"s 1956 biblical epic the ten commandments, religion a lot in bollywood movies. What is religion: a deity/deities, worship, rituals, symbols, faith, sacred stories or places, specific actions, set of ethics/rules to follow, doctrine, institution. Religion has an essence and tries to determine what the essence is (eg. belief in a deity) Common critique - definitions not universal (eg. many buddhist are atheists": functional. Role that religion plays in society (eg. religion functions to unite community - neil durchime) Common critique - other systems do same thing (eg. hockey is a community)
