SOCL 3101 Chapter : Alternative Theories
Document Summary
Sociologically there are no false religions, humans are responding to what they experience. Naturism: begin the argument that human beings experience these big powerful forces in nature. Primitive man being rational would start to prescribe sacred characteristics to these great earthly wonders (hurricanes, tprnadoes, wind, earth, water) Then if religion was really born, forces thus imagined would be no more powerful than those perceived by scientists because of today"s facts. Man nor nature has sacred characteristic, have to get it from someone else. Totemism is the most basic and simple religion that simply seperates the sacred from the profane and the church is the moral community. Two essential traits: individual that compose it consider bond together by kindship, relationship doesn"t come from definite blood connection. Recognize duties for each other, relations of kinship. World that designates clan also designates the species, and totem: Idea and or word that also designates a species of things (clan of kangaroo, lizard, humans)
