SOSA 3013 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Bricolage, Syncretism
13 Oct 2016
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The role of official religions within the state. Implicit religion - not obvious to a lot of people. Consulting with dead ancestors as spiritual guides. How do you engage with your belief? (if you go to church then once a week) Why do we even need a category to describe supernatural and extra-theistic practices and beliefs beyond the term religion Identify as spiritual because there is something in religion they do not want to be associated with. Islam and terrorism - when do people get to talk about religion; specifically the positives of it. Implicit religion - when does the afterlife come up; supernatural movies; psychic, talking about the future, supernatural powers and mechanisms (otherworldly: when it comes to popular culture, have to look more into beliefs. Our modern preoccupation with identifying a distinctly religious domain has blinded us to the way the everyday world remains enchanted.
