RLG101H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Hybridity, Roger Keesing, General Order
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Religion very often impacts on all levels of life, including the individual and the social level. The culture in which a person lives is strongly influenced by the predominant religion of their. The religion that a person practices will always be influenced by their cultural context and location. Major religious traditions in the world do encourage practitioners to reflect on and engage with abstract and supra-mundane aspects of reality. Cross cultural; looking at religions across a range of different cultures. Sigmund freud controversially proposed that religion is a misguided and unhealthy outcome of the problems inherent in a young boy working through his relationship with his father. His theory relied heavily on a view that assumed all religions are were similar to judaism and. The southern baptists in contemporary american practice a form of christianity embedded within the wider context of english speaking american cultural life.
