RLG101H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Xenophanes, Virgin Birth Of Jesus, Richard Gombrich
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Summary: other than accepting the bible, it is the concept of belief that seems to define. Reductionists tend to assume religion as false", whereas phenomenologists seek to treat religion as a thing in itself, as sui generis. Protestant reformation vs. catholics: protestant reformation aimed to establish the importance of individual faith (or belief) over what protestants saw as the corrupt and dominance of the catholic. Edward taylor: religion as the belief in spiritual beings", all religions have some sort of belief, there are considerable problems in applying the term belief (ex. Muslim, jewish, and buddhist traditions don"t have a particular translation to the word belief": no words in arabic, hebrew, or pali that can be effectively translated into the. Thus, we tend to apply the concept of belief" to other religions which can be problematic: practice of religiosity in non-christian contexts may emphasis on other aspects of behaviour than belief, such as rituals.
