RELI 1730 Chapter 4: RELI 1730 - Ares and Sacred Quest Notes
9 Feb 2017
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Religious life paradoxically contains its own opposite types. It is both otherworldly and this worldly contemplative and ecstatic the (cid:449)o(cid:396)ship of (cid:862)the othe(cid:396)(cid:863: the discovery of the self, an outgoing, ethical act, and an inward gathering act, a moment of quiet propriety. For every specific activity or worldview, with which religion has been equated, there is an opposite type of activity or worldview that has also been associated with it. There are so many disparate types or modes of religiousness with which they match up. Thus, in attempting to do justice to the sheer variety of religions life, comparative religion not only identifies common function and patters but also acknowledge typologies of kinds of religions cultures. Since the 19th century, monotheistic interpretations of the evolution of religion often identified 3 stages of history and faith: animinsm, polytheism, monotheism. There are tyoes of views of reality: ex: monism, dualism. Tyoes of religious organization: ex: sects, churches.
