RLG101H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Antonio Gramsci, Desmond Tutu, Michel Foucault
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Desmond tutu (south african anti-apartheid campaigner) said in 1980s: if someone suggests there is no connection between religion and politics, they must be reading a different bible to his own comment to christians. Somehow cultural spheres of religion and politics are separate a view that is somewhat at odds with many ways in which religion are bound up with systems of power. Religion is a means for those in power to keep their power, associated with analysis of philosopher and activist karl marx. Chapter on: max weber, antonio gramsci, louis althusser and michel foucault. Religion and power are not separate at odds, they are closely bound up with each other, and both ways in which we can talk about culture. Wrote on the study of religion as part of much wider project on relationship between social division and material world. Important to understand how he viewed the basis of social relations and operation of power.
