RELS 205 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Alien Abduction, Reductionism, Sigmund Freud

• School: University of Calgary
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELS 205
• Professor: Jonathan Napier

Document Summary

Nye"s approach to the study of religion. Tackles the historic and messy roots for the term religion". Insiders are biased and outsiders must look in without getting to close to said religion to maintain unbiased. Podcast (theory of method 1 v2 2): There is a difficulty coming up with a singular definition, or a couple of agreed upon definitions of religion as many definitions are too narrow or too broad to really capture what we mean by religion. If we say religion has to do with god (or even something like transcendence) we ignore religions that have no god figure (like. Joke (kind of): the only discipline where scholars don"t agree on what they study. The multi-branched history of the term makes it difficult. The insider (person who is religious) has a particular understanding of what religion is based on his/her experience.