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- roblematic. | ^15.03 ^ [[2|Bring an example of a religious practice you would like to know more about.]] ^ |... ts, Durkheim | | Write:| Describe an example of a religious practice, and how you learned about it. | | Resea... s about. | ^29.03 ^ [[4|Why would someone join a religious commune?]] ^ | Read: | Palmer| | Write:| State yo... | Write: | Why does Romberg reject the concept of religious syncretism? Do you agree or disagree and why? | |
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- s, and with people who are part of many different religious traditions both large and small. Below are severa... logies of Place, Time and Belonging in an Angolan Religious Movement. New York: Berghahn Books. Blanes, Ruy,... y Press. Geertz, Clifford. 1971. Islam Observed: Religious Development in Morocco and Indonesia. Chicago: Un... 9. The Edge of Islam: Power, Personhood, and Ethnoreligious Boundaries on the Kenya Coast. Durham, N.C.: Duke
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- amine various ways anthropologists have theorised religious belief and practice, and we will challenge these ideas by looking at the vast diversity of religious forms. Starting with the major theories of Durkhe... opologists have identified as the key elements of religious forms cross-culturally. It will also look at deba... mphasis will be put on the continuing salience of religious ideas and identities in modernity. ## Explorin
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- e skeptical of claims that religion is universal. Religious ideas, practices and symbols have been analyzed f
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- ciousness * Religion as a type of social action * Religious experience and subjectivity * Religion as moral practice * Religious subjectivity and ideologies of communication ##
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- orward a claim for us to debate: **Historically, religious movements are more effective at achieving social ... No Passport: Immigrants and the Changing American Religious Landscape. New Press. Nation, Carry Amelia. 1909
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- 2667/11 ### Readings ### Mahmood, Saba. 2013. “Religious Reason and Secular Affect: An Incommensurable Div... to give citizens a substitute for their communal religious identities. * Robert Bellah: "Civil religion" #
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- these same countries, over half do not attend any religious service. ## Questions of religion, atheism, and secularism ## In other parts of the world, religious identity seems to have a new prominence. * The ... in China, and a general revival of interest in religious practice. * The growth of Christianity in sub-Sah... fe would be completely secular and indifferent to religious ideas. This has become **the secularization thesi
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- to discrete, bounded categories of identity. ## Religious identity in a mass society ## * If religion is a... gion in a mass society? * How does one express a religious identity as one's social identity in a mass society? ## Religion and economy ## * Religious prohibitions on consumption * Religious critiques of wealth * Blessing of commodity consumption * Aimee Sem
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- 19th century missions in Africa were motivated by religious revivals in Europe and elsewhere. ## A brief ... der of services, > but there was an abundance of religious enthusiasm. (Synan 1997: 98) ## How Pentecos... ind ways to resist colonial domination. * African religious practices mix indigenous and foreign elements, ... ional identities. Meyer argues that all of these religious types, Independent and Pentecostal, are really ju
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- 1994. Syncretism/Anti-Syncretism: The Politics of Religious Synthesis. London: Routledge. ### Other media #... 1994. Syncretism/Anti-Syncretism: The Politics of Religious Synthesis. Routledge. ## A guide to the unit
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- s. James, William. 1994 [1902]. The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature. New York: Mo... "nothing." ## Is there any truth to religion and religious belief? ## a) A potentially explosive issue. It ... ht about religion? ## What is happening in this religious event? ## A clip from the *The Divine Horsemen:... arch questions"? ## There are many varieties of religious experience ## * Healthy-mindedness: You feel as
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- ~~DECKJS~~ # Why would someone join a religious commune? # ## Why would someone join a religious commune? ## Ryan Schram Mills 169 (A26) ryan.schram@sy... ificing a pig * Baptizing an adult * Handing out religious literature on a street corner * Meditating * Avo... nce. In other words, if religion is social, and religious activities are also social actions, what kind of
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- ued ## In his book, *The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life* (1915), Durkheim states that religion is so... ociety worship itself? ## Durkheim observes that religious forms consist of both beliefs and practices. Sacr... ctions can be sacred too. What seems important to religious practice is that, unlike other everyday activitie... what do taboos, pollution tell us about people's religious thinking. How can we fit these ideas into our lar
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- ~~DECKJS~~ # Bring an example of a religious practice you would like to know more about # ## Bring an example of a religious practice you would like to know more about ## Ry... Emile. 2008 [1912]. “The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life.” In A Reader in the Anthropology of Religio... d you bring? ## You should bring an example of a religious practice to your tutorial today. Maybe some of yo