RLG101H5 Lecture 5: Lecture 5
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Teachers / professors: power relations exist in all human communities/ institutions (ex. Kids have more knowledge than their parents when it comes to technology) Power relations also exist between religions and larger societies. Religion and larger society: religion creates and sustains power, religion also subverts power. Karl marx and engels on religion: religion can be ideology. Imaginary flowers that cover up the chains and in order to see them you have to remove the flowers. Religion has the power to mask suffering: religion also has the power to provide rewards after death. Gramsci: hegemony: those who are rules over feel that have a stake in powers that control/ exploit them (ex. Going to university, one is voluntarily going to a place where you have a lower status of power because we are getting something out of it: counter-hegemony: refers to pushing back against the system.
