RELIGST 1J03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Religious Text
27 Mar 2016
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Based on the cultural impacts it has. Takes the subject in a new direction; explores something in a new way. Religious book that teaches us something/ morality; gives us guidance on how to live our life . The power or the ability to shape politics/ our lives. Books are treated as theh are sacred objects or they are simply sacred objects by people that haven"t read them. Literacy rates are really low people are treating books as scared objects although they don"t know the context, they are instead told what the context of the book is. There"s various ways you can attach greatness to the text. Some books are contextual, they would be great now but not in the long term. Its fluid; times have changed what they tried to teach people can still be applied universally. You don"t have to read a book to appreciate it, Movies, audio books, songs, mahabharata, art works.
