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+ | ~~DECKJS~~ | ||
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+ | # Bring an example of a religious practice you would like to know more about # | ||
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+ | ## Bring an example of a religious practice you would like to know more about ## | ||
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+ | Ryan Schram | ||
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+ | ryan.schram@sydney.edu.au | ||
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+ | Mills 169 (A69) | ||
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+ | March 15, 2017 | ||
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+ | Available at http:// | ||
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+ | ### Readings ### | ||
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+ | Unit outline and assignment instructions. | ||
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+ | Durkheim, Emile. 2008 [1912]. “The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life.” In A Reader in the Anthropology of Religion, edited by Michael Lambek, 34–47. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishing. | ||
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+ | ### Other media ### | ||
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+ | Anonymous. 2013. "Emile Durkheim and Socialization." | ||
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+ | ## What did you bring? ## | ||
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+ | You should bring an example of a religious practice to your tutorial today. Maybe some of you already have some ideas... Walk around and introduce yourself to people. Share what you have brought. | ||
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+ | Now is a good time to mention my guide to research, *[[: | ||
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+ | ## What have people brought? ## | ||
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+ | * Do you have something in common with other students? | ||
+ | * Was there something surprising? | ||
+ | * Do you notice any themes or patterns? | ||
+ | * Are we closer to defining religion now? | ||
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+ | ## Finding a topic of research ## | ||
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+ | You should now have all read the unit outline, the assignment instructions, | ||
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+ | What is an " | ||
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+ | Do you have any questions for me? | ||
+ | ## Society, religion, social theory, social studies of religion ## | ||
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+ | This class focuses on the relationships between religion and society, and the role played by religious ideas, practices and institutions in societies. | ||
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+ | * The **social study of religion** is different than the history of religion, studying religious literature or texts, and theology. | ||
+ | * The social study of religion seeks to examine the significance of religion - whatever it may be - for **human experience**. Why do people have or follow religions? What do these religions tell us about human societies? | ||
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+ | Anthropology has its own special way of tackling this. | ||
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+ | * Anthropology looks at human behavior and experiences in relation to **the social and cultural context**. Thus, it seeks to place religion in that kind of context too. Not only are there many, many kinds of religions, but the value of religion itself is different in every society, because every society is different. | ||
+ | * Anthropology looks broadly at the human condition in all its diversity because it wants to draw a general conclusion about **what it means to be human**. Religion has been particularly useful for this, because it seems to be everywhere, yet everywhere it is different--really, | ||
+ | * Anthropology seeks to look at the world from the **the native' | ||
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+ | Weeks 2, 3, 4, and 5 introduce to key theories - abstract, general explanations or models - anthropology uses to understand religions in all their cultural diversity, and all their complexity. | ||
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+ | ## The study of religion before anthropology ## | ||
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+ | * Describing and theorizing religion was first a branch of theology. This results in a ' | ||
+ | * European Enlightenment philosophy attempts to prove whether or not there is a basis in ' | ||
+ | * The development of science meant that the *is* could be separated from the *ought*. Studying religion became a topic people wanted to talk about objectively. | ||
+ | * E. B. Tylor puts forward one of the first ' | ||
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+ | ## Emile Durkheim, founder of sociology and anthropology ## | ||
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+ | ## Durkheim' | ||
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+ | * Society is a whole which is greater than the sum of its parts. A society is a collective consciousness. | ||
+ | * The ideas (or ' | ||
+ | * The essence of society is its solidarity. Society perdures in time because the members often feel and know in their bones that they are part of the whole. Durkheim says that this is expressed in terms of "the sacred." | ||
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+ | ## Durkheim on religion and society ## | ||
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+ | * Religion is essential to all societies. Every society must have a distinction between the ' | ||
+ | * Religion as we know it, and many other kinds of social institution, | ||
+ | * Durkheim also spoke of " | ||
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+ | ## Society worshipping itself ## | ||
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+ | Durkheim is best known for his statement that ' | ||
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+ | ## References ## | ||
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+ | Durkheim, Emile. 1964 [1895]. The Rules of the Sociological Method. Edited by George E. G. Catlin. Translated by Sarah A. Solovay and John H. Mueller. New York: The Free Press. | ||
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+ | ## A guide to the unit ## | ||
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