CLA233H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Melford Spiro, Clifford Geertz, General Order
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Id key terms, personnel, and components of religious practices. Discuss overlap between religion, the roman state" and the familia. Discuss the influence of foreign cult upon roman identity. Examine epicureanism and stoicism, noting connections to religion and nature. Religion is really embedded in society and not just confined to sacred spaces. Happened in civic places e. g. roman forum, household. Emile durkheim religion is a unified system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things. Melford spiro religion is an institution consisting of culturally patterned interactions with superhuman beings. Clifford geertz system of symbols, general order of existence. Symbols are common and repeated as a theme. Reverence for the gods, worship, piety, scrupulousness, conscientiousness. Approval for practices and beliefs, correct roman practices. From relegere to gather together, collected again, repeat, reread. Rituals of foreign cults and adherents to those cults. Cultus - having been cultivated, grown, laboured, worked thus reverence for the gods.
