RELIGST 3UU3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Scientific Method, Protestant Reformation
10 Jan 2017
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Most of the lecture time will focus on discussion. The thought that individuals could understand for themselves, no need for a priest: practice and believe must be based in scripture (for christians) Resulted in the development of ideas about what religion is, where to find truth, and the proper direction of religious efforts: text are reliable information, not the actions of the practitioners or religious authority figures. Birth of text criticism: search for more reliable, authentic of the text used. The enlightenment was about reason over faith. The development of the scientific method and purisms (spelling) The church loses a large amount of power. Colonialism and imperialism: colonizers seen themselves as bringing civilization to the uncivilized. Western ideas came into contact with non-western peoples in a systematic way. Forces led to the academic study of religion and the inherited bias. Towards last part of 19th century eastern religious studies became popular.
