REL 110 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Tzedakah, Atheism, Sukkot
4 Oct 2017
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Study guide: religion is notoriously di cult to de ne. 3 uses of religion: popular, biological, academic, popular, what we think of when we talk about religion, protestant christianity, judaism, muslim, culturally important. Even if people don"t practice a religion, they recognize it as a part of life (other people"s lives: private/spiritual/transcendent, religion allows people to escape from the mundane world, people believe that religion is apart from government. This has changed overtime (christianity and the republican party: biological, genus religion (world religion) Evolutionary: common in the 1800s to discuss an ideal" form of a religion but to recognize that other forms exist, but are not on the same level. The more evolved" your religion is, the more evolved you are as a person: missionaries sought to help people evolve. Ex) isis has recognized itself as reaching the highest evolutionary standing of islam: academic. Observers best e ort to reproduce classi cation system of people being studied.
