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- | # Religion as ideology | + | # Do religions mix? # |
- | ## Religion as ideology, or Global Christianity | + | ## " |
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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 |
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+ | ———. 2013b. The Cooking | ||
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+ | Stewart, Charles. 1999. “Syncretism and Its Synonyms: Reflections on Cultural Mixture.” Diacritics 29 (3): 40–62. doi:10.1353/dia.1999.0023. | ||
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+ | Stewart, Charles, and Rosalind Shaw, eds. 1994. Syncretism/ | ||
- | Cahn, Peter S. 2006. “Building Down and Dreaming Up: Finding Faith in a Mexican Multilevel Marketer.” American Ethnologist 33 (1): 126–42. doi: | ||
### Other media ### | ### Other media ### | ||
- | Osteen, Joel. 2015. “Choosing Faith In Spite Of The Facts 2015.” https://www.youtube.com/watch? | + | Movsesian, Mark. 2015. “Yoga at the University: Those Canadian Students Have a Point.” First Things. November 30. http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/ |
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+ | Meakins, Felicity. | ||
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+ | ## " | ||
- | Search for more videos | + | * Practical: healing, protection, solving problems |
+ | * Ethical: Being good, achieving salvation, seeking truth | ||
+ | * From James' | ||
+ | ## Theories of culture and culture contact ## | ||
- | ## Another world is possible ## | + | * 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." | ||
- | The [[https://fsm2015.org/en|World Social Forum]], a meeting of groups from around the world who | + | * Creolization |
- | are all combating globalization, has a slogan: | + | * Creole languages, e.g. Haitian |
- | possible*. | + | |
+ | * The creolization of culture creates a new culture. Is it a " | ||
- | Is this the only world that is possible? | ||
- | What other worlds are possible? | ||
- | What would you change? | ||
- | ## A is A, A is not-A: Contradictions are everywhere | + | ## Syncretic religions |
- | You can' | + | * 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' | ||
- | You can't have a purchase without a buyer and a seller. | + | ## The term 'syncretism' |
- | You can't have an economy where everyone is a business owner. If there | + | * Alliance |
- | are owners, then there are also workers who work for the | + | * Political union |
- | owner. Aha. That is a class system. | + | * Mutual recognition of sacraments |
+ | * Borrowing, corruption, acculturation, | ||
- | You can't have a society in which everyone accumulates money. If one | ||
- | person is accumulating then one person is giving it up. | ||
- | ## Contradictions create tension, tension leads to change | + | ## The politics of syncretism and antisyncretism |
- | Think about adding salt to soup. A little bit makes it good. A lot | + | * [[http:// |
- | makes it disgusting. | + | * Yoga or mindful stretching? |
+ | * Dreadlocks | ||
- | Think about snow on a mountain. It builds up and accumulates, | ||
- | suddenly it all falls down in an avalanche. | ||
- | ## If the world is always in flux, what is reality? | + | ## References |
- | Think about the last lecture you went to. Did it have definitions | + | Boas, Franz. 1940 [1920]. "The Methods |
- | How do you know if this kind of a statement is true? Is this all there is? | ||
- | ## Black is white, up is down ## | + | Stewart, Charles, and Rosalind Shaw, eds. 1994. Syncretism/ |
- | * Liberal democracy is a system based on equality of all citizens, and each person' | ||
- | * 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. | ||
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