REL 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Mysterium Tremendum, Numinous, Essentialism

• School: University of Alabama
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: REL 105
• Professor: sumaikeuchi

Document Summary

Belief, emotion, experience- internal side of religion. Doctrines, church, worldview- external side of religion, structures and systems: somethings point to personal dimensions and some pointed to shared/public dimensions. Not all were under these categories: morality, narrative- somethings are in-between or both. Some of the patterns we noticed are the things that still inform us on a professional study of religion: scholars debate and disagree upon on these ideas. We will look into these disagreements, and look at things scholars cannot agree with. Most important thing about religion is the experience and emotion of religion. In fact, otto writes that if you haven"t felt the emotion of religion then you must stop reading his piece. He writes all about deeply felt religious experience it is beyond words, indescribable: that"s why he invented new words: Intrinsically religious feeling that is a mix of love and fear. Not in everyday life, outside the profane.