REL 2300 Chapter 1: "The Invention of World Religions" Reading Note ch 1
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Reading note: the invention of world religions, the religions of the world before world. Thesis: the author is discussing what preceded the title of world religions , and its relationship with early civilizations and europeans. Evidence/methodology: tomoko masuzawa provides evidence of the world religions before. World religions and the growth and explosion of them by delving into the texts of stanley a. Quote (properly attributed and cited): the new arrangement notwithstanding, "primitive religion," though somewhat demoted, did not disappear entirely from the new mapping. When these minority traditions came to be included in the scope of world religions, it was under a generic rubric, no named. "primal", "tribal", "indigenous", or "preliterate" religions, distinguish from, but still kept adjacent to, ancient and prehistoric religions. (masuzawa, tomoko. New terms/concepts (if applicable): the fact that it was in the years following the first world. War that world religions became obsessed with the primitive and preliterate religions and how to classify them.
