RLG101H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Roland Barthes, Religious Text, Reductionism
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Max muller religion should make religious texts their primary focus of study. Scholars have assumes that the primary and only way of learning about a religious tradition is to look in detail at the texts. The scholar will find the essential basics of the particular religion which through careful study can be made accessible. Texts can be widened to a number of other textual formats. Any text can be analyzed in terms or its form, style, and rhetoric. A large part of the analysis of texts is not only to understand what could be understood but how it is interacted within a social and cultural context. There is some text can be easily identifies and straight forward for example the bible. There are many book and films with religious references. Roland barthes: it is largely in the fabric of the everyday life around us that we can understand important issues of culture and by extension of religion.
