SOSA 3013 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Collective Effervescence, Emic And Etic, Anomie

• School: Dalhousie University
• Department: Soc & Social Anthropology
• Course: SOSA 3013
• Professor: Christopher Helland

Document Summary

Theological and doctrinal (what makes you a real buddhist or a real muslim. Be aware and respect opinions, but should not limit how we see religion, must have a good definition of religion. Boundaries or what is authentic vs. what is inauthentic forms of the religious traditions. Will study them because people still identify as such, move past what some say are boundaries. Creating boundaries and an issue of violence as one defense post. Focused on anomie people getting unhappier (and feeling out of place) as society and capitalism developed. Religion is/was a powerful force that people really experienced (contrary to freud who said religion was an illusion) Atheist, functionalist (no supernatural function of religion in community, what told what is sacred, what should be punished) Collective effervescence: community gatherings that intensify, electrify and enlarge religious experience; bringing people together in close physical proximity generates a kind of electricity that quickly transports them to an extraordinary degree of exaltation .