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- | # Religion as ideology | + | # Do religions mix? # |
- | ## Religion as ideology, or Global Christianity | + | ## " |
Ryan Schram | Ryan Schram | ||
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ryan.schram@sydney.edu.au | ryan.schram@sydney.edu.au | ||
- | 16 April 2015 | + | 13 April 2016 |
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### Readings ### | ### Readings ### | ||
- | Rudnyckyj, Daromir. 2009. “Market Islam in Indonesia.” Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 15: S183–201. doi: | + | Romberg, Raquel. 1998. “Whose Spirits Are They?: The Political Economy of Syncretism and Authenticity.” Journal of Folklore Research 35 (1): 69–82. |
- | Wiegele, Katharine L. 2013. “Reframing Suffering | + | Palmié, Stephan. 2013a. “Mixed Blessings |
- | Cahn, Peter S. 2006. “Building Down and Dreaming Up: Finding Faith in a Mexican Multilevel Marketer.” American Ethnologist 33 (1): 126–42. doi: | + | ———. 2013b. The Cooking of History: How Not to Study Afro-Cuban Religion. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. |
- | ### Other media ### | + | Stewart, Charles. 1999. “Syncretism and Its Synonyms: Reflections on Cultural Mixture.” Diacritics 29 (3): 40–62. doi: |
- | Osteen, Joel. 2015. “Choosing Faith In Spite Of The Facts 2015.” https:// | + | Stewart, Charles, and Rosalind Shaw, eds. 1994. Syncretism/ |
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+ | ### Other media ### | ||
- | Search for more videos and information about Joel Osteen. Why is his " | + | Movsesian, Mark. 2015. “Yoga at the University: Those Canadian Students Have a Point.” First Things. November 30. http:// |
+ | Meakins, Felicity. 2015. “Some Australian Indigenous Languages You Should Know.” The Conversation. May 8. http:// | ||
- | ## Another world is possible ## | ||
- | The [[https:// | + | ## " |
- | are all combating globalization, | + | |
- | possible*. | + | |
- | Is this the only world that is possible? | + | * Practical: healing, protection, solving problems |
+ | * Ethical: Being good, achieving salvation, seeking truth | ||
+ | * From James' | ||
- | What other worlds are possible? | + | ## Theories of culture and culture contact ## |
- | What would you change? | + | * Diffusionism and historical particularism |
+ | * Diffusionism: | ||
+ | * Franz Boas (1940, 281): "Each cultural group has its own unique history, dependent partly upon the peculiar inner development of the social group, and partly upon the foreign influences to which it has been subjected." | ||
- | ## A is A, A is not-A: Contradictions are everywhere ## | + | * Creolization |
+ | * Creole languages, e.g. Haitian //kreol//, Jamaican //patois//, etc. | ||
+ | * Ulf Hannerz: creole languages : " | ||
+ | * The creolization of culture creates a new culture. Is it a " | ||
- | You can't have a war without both a winner and a loser. | ||
- | You can't have a purchase without a buyer and a seller. | ||
- | You can't have an economy where everyone is a business owner. If there | ||
- | are owners, then there are also workers who work for the | ||
- | owner. Aha. That is a class system. | ||
- | You can't have a society in which everyone accumulates money. If one | + | ## Syncretic religions ## |
- | person is accumulating then one person is giving it up. | + | |
- | ## Contradictions create tension, tension leads to change ## | + | * What are some examples of religions based on syncretism? |
+ | * Is the Twelve Tribes a syncretic religion? | ||
+ | * Is the Horizon Christian Fellowship? | ||
+ | * Is Christianity itself syncretic? | ||
+ | * What if there are syncretic religions but we do not label them that way? Why wouldn' | ||
- | Think about adding salt to soup. A little bit makes it good. A lot | + | ## The term ' |
- | makes it disgusting. | + | |
- | Think about snow on a mountain. It builds up and accumulates, | + | * Alliance |
- | suddenly it all falls down in an avalanche. | + | * Political union |
+ | * Mutual recognition of sacraments | ||
+ | * Borrowing, corruption, acculturation, | ||
- | ## If the world is always in flux, what is reality? ## | ||
- | Think about the last lecture you went to. Did it have definitions | + | ## The politics |
- | How do you know if this kind of a statement is true? Is this all there is? | + | * [[http:// |
+ | * Yoga or mindful stretching? | ||
+ | * Dreadlocks | ||
- | ## Black is white, up is down ## | ||
- | * Liberal democracy is a system based on equality of all citizens, and each person' | + | ## References ## |
- | * Never before have humans been able to feed so many with so few | + | |
- | resources, and yet starvation and obesity are both widespread. | + | |
- | * Biomedical technology has nearly wiped out mortality from infectious | + | |
- | diseases ... until we all die from superbugs. | + | |
+ | Boas, Franz. 1940 [1920]. "The Methods of Ethnology." | ||
- | ## Marx and religion ## | ||
- | Marx, *Critique of the Philosophy of Right* (1843): | + | Stewart, Charles, and Rosalind Shaw, eds. 1994. Syncretism/ |
- | > Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of | ||
- | > real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the | ||
- | > sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and | ||
- | > the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people. | ||
- | ## Marx and religion ## | ||
- | Marx, *Critique of the Philosophy of Right* (1843): | ||
- | > The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is | ||
- | > the demand for their real happiness. To call on them to give up | ||
- | > their illusions about their condition is to call on them to give up | ||
- | > a condition that requires illusions. The criticism of religion is, | ||
- | > therefore, in embryo, the criticism of that vale of tears of which | ||
- | > religion is the halo. | ||
## A guide to the unit ## | ## A guide to the unit ## |
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