REL 2300 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Transtheism, Paul Tillich, Pantheism
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Please use this forum to collaborate in the review process. You can post possible exam questions, explanations and definitions, relevant page numbers from brodd, etc. You can also post any questions you might have about the concepts listed here and answer classmates" questions. Durkheim: sociologist; unified system of beliefs, religion causes one single moral community called a church. James- defined religion as feelings , acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude . Tillich- theologian; unconditional in a man"s spiritual life. Freud-religion functions as an unhealthy but soothing buffer against the inner terrors of the psyche. Lincoln- most prominent contemporary theorists of religion, asserts definition that a religion always has 4 domains- discourse, practice, community, and institution. Dualistic (more than one ultimate power such as god and jesus) vs. monistic (hinduism view that means that all reality is ultimately one) Atheism- do not believe that there is any deity.
