REL-1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Varg Vikernes, Radiance, Heredity
19 Aug 2017
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Chapter 11: traveling together: the sociology of religion. All religion is social: religion as we know it is always social, inseparable from the fact that we humans live in societies, in a network of interpersonal relationships, and use language. Religious groups: a religious group is a set of people whose interpersonal relations complete for one another the symbolic expression of religious experience. Established religion says that one can find ultimate meaning through li(cid:448)i(cid:374)g (cid:449)ithi(cid:374) the religious traditio(cid:374)s of o(cid:374)e"s (cid:272)o(cid:373)(cid:373)u(cid:374)it(cid:455). It takes the new worldviews seriously, and says that the real truth, including religious truth, must be consistent with real truth in all other areas of knowledge. Emergent religion: emergent religion contrasts with established religion, but has roots in it. Intensive emergent religion: groups withdraw from ordinary society in favor of a more intense and rigorous commitment to major symbols of the established religion.
