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| - | # Religion as ideology | + | # Do religions mix? # |
| - | ## Religion as ideology, or Global Christianity | + | ## " |
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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/ |
| - | Search for more videos and information about Joel Osteen. Why is his " | ||
| + | ### Other media ### | ||
| - | ## Another world is possible ## | + | 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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| - | The [[https://fsm2015.org/en|World Social Forum]], a meeting of groups from around | + | |
| - | are all combating globalization, | + | |
| - | possible*. | + | |
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| - | Is this the only world that is possible? | + | |
| - | What other worlds are possible? | + | Meakins, Felicity. 2015. “Some Australian Indigenous Languages You Should Know.” The Conversation. May 8. http:// |
| - | What would you change? | ||
| - | ## A is A, A is not-A: Contradictions are everywhere | + | ## " |
| - | You can't have a war without both a winner | + | * Practical: healing, protection, solving problems |
| + | * Ethical: Being good, achieving salvation, seeking truth | ||
| + | * From James's perspective, | ||
| - | You can't have a purchase without a buyer and a seller. | + | ## Theories of culture |
| - | You can't have an economy where everyone is a business owner. If there | + | * Diffusionism and historical particularism |
| - | are owners, then there are also workers who work for the | + | * Diffusionism: |
| - | owner. Aha. That is a class system. | + | * 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." (Boas 1940 [1929], 286) |
| - | You can't have a society in which everyone accumulates money. If one | + | * Creolization |
| - | person is accumulating then one person is giving it up. | + | * Creole languages, e.g. Haitian //kreol//, Jamaican //patois//, etc. |
| + | * Ulf Hannerz: creole languages : " | ||
| + | * The creolization of culture creates a new culture. Is it a " | ||
| - | ## Contradictions create tension, tension leads to change ## | ||
| - | Think about adding salt to soup. A little bit makes it good. A lot | ||
| - | makes it disgusting. | ||
| - | 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? | + | ## Syncretic religions |
| - | Think about the last lecture you went to. Did it have definitions | + | * What are some examples |
| + | * Is the Twelve Tribes | ||
| + | * 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' | ||
| - | How do you know if this kind of a statement is true? Is this all there is? | + | ## The term ' |
| - | ## Black is white, up is down ## | + | * Alliance |
| + | * Political union | ||
| + | * Mutual recognition of sacraments | ||
| + | * Borrowing, corruption, acculturation, | ||
| - | * 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. | ||
| + | ## The politics of syncretism and antisyncretism ## | ||
| - | ## Marx and religion ## | + | * [[http:// |
| + | * Yoga or mindful stretching? | ||
| + | * Dreadlocks | ||
| - | Marx, *Critique of the Philosophy of Right* (1843): | ||
| - | > Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of | + | ## References ## |
| - | > 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. | + | |
| + | Boas, Franz. 1940 [1920]. "The Methods of Ethnology." | ||
| - | ## Marx and religion ## | + | Stewart, Charles, |
| - | 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. | ||
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