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- ligious Life.” In A Reader in the Anthropology of Religion, edited by Michael Lambek, 34–47. Malden, Mass.: ... themes or patterns? * Are we closer to defining religion now? ## Finding a topic of research ## You ... d? Do you have any questions for me? ## Society, religion, social theory, social studies of religion ## This class focuses on the relationships between religion and
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- ~~DECKJS~~ # Why is religion interesting and problematic? # ## Why is religion interesting and problematic? ## Ryan Schram ryan.schr... to find ethnographic sources about these forms of religion, and how to formulate a topic of research, your first assignment (due on March 15). ## What is religion? ## How do you define 'religion'? * Write down
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- mic Headscarves.” The Immanent Frame: Secularism, Religion and the Public Sphere, February 10. http://blogs.... uality-and-islamic-headscarves/. ## Questions of religion, atheism, and secularism ## In many parts of the... to be on the decline. * In Australia, 65.3% say religion is 'not very important' or 'not at all importan... ). * In Scandinavian countries, 60% of people say religion is unimportant (ibid.). * In some Western Europea
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- ### Readings ### Bellah, Robert N. 1967. “Civil Religion in America.” Daedalus 96 (1): 1–21. http://www.ro... parliaments-haus-tambaran/. ## New questions of religion and politics ## * Millennialism and militant su... acific: Posttraditionalism? ## Anthropology and religion ## * Religion and collective consciousness * Religion as a type of social action * Religious experience an
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- ~~DECKJS~~ # Can religion change the world? # ## Can religion change the world ## Ryan Schram Mills 169 (A26) ryan.schram@sydney.... burma1207web.pdf. Bellah, Robert N. 1967. “Civil Religion in America.” Daedalus 96 (1): 1–21. http://www.ro... ww.merip.org/mer/mer205/what-political-islam. ## Religion and semiotic ideology Communicator--Message--Cod
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- and assigned readings ====== ^08.03 ^ [[1|Why is religion interesting and problematic?]] ^ | | We will dis... earch project. We will also share ideas about why religion is interesting and problematic. | ^15.03 ^ [[2|B... e: | Which has a stronger influence on the other: religion on culture, or culture on religion? | ^ 10.05 ^ [[9|Can you buy salvation?]] ^ | Read: | Jones, Brenner\*
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- the Religious Life* (1915), Durkheim states that religion is society worshipping itself((While this catchy ... d in this way, and he says in the conclusion, "If religion has given birth to all that is essential in socie... it is because the idea of society is the soul of religion" (1915: 419). In other words, it is not the empir... an we fit these ideas into our larger ideas about religion? If a society imposes taboos on things because th
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- ther readings ### Bellah, Robert N. 1967. “Civil Religion in America.” Daedalus 96 (1): 1–21. http://www.ro... of Western secularism from last week. ## Civil religion * The question of this week--//Do liberal societ... al religious identities. * Robert Bellah: "Civil religion" ## Blasphemy * The question of this week can ... there is a risk of a liberalism becoming a civil religion, is there a way we can imagine a liberal society
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- f the world and one's place in it. For Weberians, religion in general is a very important and very special t... ohibited, 'dirty' substance. In other words, if religion is social, and religious activities are also soci... s have in common? ## Max Weber, key ideas about religion ## * Rationality. Some religions, like any form... orientation. This leads to four ideal types of religion. * contemplation: Gnostic Christians, New Age r
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- {{page>2667guide}} ====== Books about religion ====== These books are on 2-hour loan in Fisher Library. T... e field. Bowie, Fiona. 2006. The Anthropology of Religion: An Introduction. Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Son... iel, and Jonathan Miles-Watson. 2006. Theories of Religion: A Reader. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers Universit... k, Michael. 2001. A Reader in the Anthropology of Religion. Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons. Pals, Daniel
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- would like to learn more about, and is related to religion as a cross-cultural and diverse phenomenon. This ... versity Press. Asad, Talal. 1993. Genealogies of Religion: Discipline and Reasons of Power in Christianity ... s. Austin-Broos, Diane J. 1997. Jamaica Genesis: Religion and the Politics of Moral Orders. Chicago: Univer... Conversion, Ethnic Citizenship, and the Matter of Religion in Malaysian Borneo. Basingstoke, Eng.: Palgrave
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- don't think "nothing." ## Is there any truth to religion and religious belief? ## a) A potentially explos... . It almost sounds as though this is asking which religion is right. b) More generally though I want to ask... ocial science ## Social scientific approaches to religion can only look at concrete, observable, empirical ... vers** don't. In other words, we are looking at religion as culture. ## William James ## * James is a
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- mes ====== The purpose of the unit is to examine religion and its relationship to social life. Arguably the study of religion has been part of anthropology since its founding,... but anthropologists are skeptical of claims that religion is universal. Religious ideas, practices and symb... based on someone’s interpretation. To learn about religion is, then, to learn how to make your own interpret
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- in Ghanaian Pentecostalist Discourse.” Journal of Religion in Africa 28 (3): 316–49. doi:10.2307/1581573. ... rse in Ivoirian Pentecostal Churches.” Journal of Religion in Africa 37 (4): 461–90. doi:10.1163/157006607X2... that outside observers use to understand African religion. In the middle of the 20th century, people were ... s of globalization as new explanation. * African religion is a form of "alternative modernity" * Pentecosta
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- # ANTH 2667: The anthropology of religion # This page is a place for materials for The Anthropology of Religion, a unit offered at the University of Sydney. This... deas and identities in modernity. ## Exploring religion through dialogue ## In 2015, the class will cent... blematic issue arising within the social study of religion, read ethnographies on this topic, and develop an