RELS 161 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Jean Baudrillard, New Media, Marshall Mcluhan
4 Oct 2017
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John z. smith defines it as not a problem to define religion; that the problem is that if can be defined fifty ways. There is no data for religion, religion is solely the creation of the s(cid:272)hola(cid:396)(cid:859)s stud(cid:455: the two most popular categories for defining religion are, substantivist: examines the substance or ineffable essence of religion. Common terms associated with its definition is supernatural & spiritual: fancy word for saying there is some sort of substance behind it all, functionalist: approached religious phenomena in terms of how it functions in relation to something. Xenophanes (c,570-c. 475 bce: basically says that if cows could aspire to have gods, their gods would be cows and so forth, says religions are projections of human desires. Ludwig feuerbach (1804-1872: (cid:862) eligio(cid:374) is the d(cid:396)ea(cid:373) of the hu(cid:373)a(cid:374) (cid:373)i(cid:374)d(cid:863) the essence of christianity. Thursday, september 21, 2017: religion imprisons us, but distracts us from contesting the status quo.
