RELIGST 1B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Clifford Geertz, Christianity Today, Comparative Religion
3 Oct 2020
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Durkheim, geertz, smith (isr, 66-73) 5 february 2020. The pervasive nature of what we call religion. All cultures that we know about appear have religion. I think what i and most other sociologists of religion wrote in the 1960s about secularization was a mistake. Our underlying argument was that secularization and modernity go hand in hand. Most of the world today is certainly not secular. Berger, 1997 in an interview published in christianity today). Interpretive approaches to religion: clifford geertz father of interpretive anthropology, religion is: Some key features of geertz"s work: not interested in comparative religion: it is the differences between religious experiences, truth- claims, rituals, behaviours, etc. , that really matter, we interpret reality based on our social situation in its entirety. Wrote on the division of labour and suicide in the 1800s. and the naturists. Durkheim on totemism: totemism divides the world into two categories: the sacred and the profane, the totem determines what falls into which category.
