ANTHROP 1AA3 Lecture 8: Day 6 (1AB3)
19 Oct 2017
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Religion: a social institution characterized by sacred stories; symbols and symbolism; the proposed existence of immeasurable beings, powers, states, places, and qualities; rituals and means of addressing the supernatural; speci c practitioner; and change. Carmody: every society there is something that anthropologist (not something members themselves) identify as religion, religions- determine cultural identity, some cases overruling other major identity markers such as kinship, social class, and ethnicity or nationality. 2. 2 billion (half roman catholics), (protestants, eastern orthodox, pentecostal. Latter-day saints, jehovah"s witnesses, quakers, etc. : islam 21% 1. 7 billion (majority sunnis), (shiite, sunni, ismaili, su etc. : hinduism 14, buddhism 6, chinese traditional 6, indigenous (includes african traditional/diasporic) 6, other 6, nonreligious 16% Agnostic, atheist, secular humanist, half of this group are theistic but nonreligious. A small minority in that category is atheists. Historical context: 19th and early 20th centuries anthropologists concerned with origin and tracing development of religion, wanted to demonstrate religion evolved from primitive superstition to enlightened.
