ANTHROP 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Conflict Resolution, Enculturation, Harold Camping
25 Feb 2015
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Interpretive: a system of symbols which acts to (2) establish powerful, pervasive, and long-lasting moods and motivations in men by (3) formulating conceptions of a general order of existence critique by talal asad (1983) Western views - effects its ability to be applied universally. Religion is culturally patterned interactions with culturally postulated superhuman beings. Takes into account: belief, ritual, supernatural referent. Explain the meaning of life and death. Conflict resolution reinforces status quo or foment social changes. How to fit in provides social history. Belief in spirit beings though to animate nature. Belief that the world in inhabited by impersonal supernatural powers. A sacred narrative explaining how the world came to be in its present form. Socially initiated, and ceremonially inducted member of recognized religious institution. Recipients of gifts that are revealed to them through speaking not all who seek are granted visions.
