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and continues to be so important to contemporary societies, we can focus on *European Christianity in postcolonial African societies*. Within this topic, though, there is also a lo... * The introduction of Christianity into African societies was never simply a one-directional movement. Ev... ches in Africa ## Pentecostalism came to African societies relatively early in its history. One good example

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by religious ideas, practices and institutions in societies. * The **social study of religion** is different... ions? What do these religions tell us about human societies? Anthropology has its own special way of tackli... ssed in terms of "the sacred." He argues that all societies define some things as sacred and some things as p... on and society ## * Religion is essential to all societies. Every society must have a distinction between th

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~~DECKJS~~ # Do liberal societies need beliefs? # ## Do liberal societies need beliefs? ## Ryan Schram Mills 169 (A26) ryan.schram@sydney.... my/. ## A critique of liberalism ## * Western societies tell a story of themselves in which the present s... ligion * The question of this week--//Do liberal societies need beliefs?//--can be read as asking whether a

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ve rituals. ## Some key terms of Durkheim ## * Societies are wholes which are greater than the sum of thei... rganic solidarity. * **Sacred and profane**: All societies must have at least one social fact, the distincti... of the sacred. Durkheim also observes that many societies' rituals are collective in nature. All people of ... ction. Durkheim takes this as a general rule: All societies have a sacred ritual which they perform together

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~~DECKJS~~ # Do all societies become secular? # ## Do all societies become secular? ## Ryan Schram Mills 169 (A26) ryan.schram@sydney.

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his week on Blackboard. | ^ 17.05 ^ [[10|Do all societies eventually become secular?]] ^ | Read: | Mahmood,... d the Islamic world? | ^ 24.05 ^ [[11|Do liberal societies need beliefs?]] ^ | Read: | Mahmood, Keane\* | |

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a broad category is **not an explanation** of why societies have religions. Anthropology examines religion in

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ds calculation. For Weber some actions, and some societies, are more rational than others. This is how Ortne

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ption ## A simplified theory of identity in mass societies: * Communication involves using codes. We expre