RLG101H5 Study Guide - Final Guide: Logocentrism, Stanley Fish, Transnationalism
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Require element of scholarly agnosticism;-should only claim competence in field of experience which known = human world. Popular religion: religious worlds in which people live & practice their religion class would see their exploitation clearly religion does dirty work of keeping oppressed content with their oppression. Human centered approach: study of religion as human practice, activity not god centered. Orthodoxy: what religious institutions and leaders expect or require them to do. Analyst of popular religion - steven sutcliffe: popular culture can be understood as a mode of doing religion which can take place in a number of different ways and contexts. Popular culture are nearly always associated with mass consumption by social groups who have relatively less power. Clifford geertz: religion as cultural system: argued that we should understand religion as system of symbols which acts to establish powerful, pervasive and long lasting moods and motivations in men process of growing up.
