RLG101H5 Chapter Notes -Arawak, T. S. Eliot, Ethnic Religion
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Religion: focuses on beliefs, experiences and practices of specific communities with respect to non-falsifiable realities. Dealing with religion when we: step outside of material reality to address questions of spirit, meaning or divinity. Indigenous understood to mean original to the land . Some cultures that are considered to be indigenous recognize supreme being; some recognize a variety of deities; and some don"t bother to think about these things. Indigenous: kinship and location- to belong to a community that is defined to its members" genealogical relations to one another and its connections to a particular place. Putting both terms together- indigenous religion: beliefs, experiences, and practices concerning non-falsifiable realities of peoples who a) identify themselves as indigenous and b) reply on kinship and location to define their place in the world. Indigenous religions no longer exist, but certain traditions still followed. Syncretism: the merging of elements from different religions.
