REL 1000 Chapter : Religion 1000
Document Summary
Eck"s 3 voices: academic/scholarly, truths, based on empirical evidence, subject to change, theological, truths, based on faith & unchanging, reworking a tradition from within, civic, truths, claims about what is american . Classifications of religion: evolutionary categorized by how advanced , assumes progression outdated, phenomenological based on similarities in religious life regardless of time and place, geographical based on region of origin/practice. Our way of categorizing: oral/indigenous traditions (phen. , religions of india (geo. , religions of the far east (geo. , religions of the middle east (geo. , newer religious movements (phen. ) Native american religions: generalizations, traditionally oral, difficult to know about pre-encounter traditions, hard to generalize, theistic traditions, multiple deities, animistic, no stark distinctions between (super)natural or good/evil, instrumentalism. Instrumentalism: sacrifice, taboos anything that must be avoided in order to protect an individual or group, medicine men . Healing: shamanism is common, people who survived severe illness, a way to deal with devastation of disease, some travel to supernatural realm.
