RELIGST 2EE3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Clifford Geertz, General Order, Edward Bailey

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELIGST 2EE3
• Professor: Eileen Schuller

Document Summary

Sport is a religious phenomenon because it is a locus of meaning-making and connection-making that provides athletes and fans with opportunity to attempt to transcend self and mortality. Definitions are aids for thinking, not pigeonholes: contemporary scholars don"t really like big picture definitions, those definitions are useful sometime. Any concept or institution socially constructed: action of people, negotiate meaning, no real universal essence. Institutions and concepts are socially constructed, contested and in flux. Religious symbols both express the world"s climate and shape it : shape by calling up by evoking acting in people, moods and motivations. Given a particular conception of the really real, one must act according to a certain. Worldview and ethos harmonize in a religion. The faithful refer the specifics of their life experience to the general order of existence : understand their experience to be meaningful, ex.