RELIG103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Mircea Eliade, Clifford Geertz, New Atheism

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELIG103
• Professor: Adrienne Wright

Document Summary

Put aside personal beliefs and political views. Includes a spiritual faith, connection with the divine. The office of religious freedom promotes freedom of religion or belief as a canadian foreign policy priority. Sam harris is one of the 4 horsemen in new atheism. Spirituality: is a fashionable word, used in contemporary religious discourse for a spiritual attitude toward life . Spiritual: relate to the human spirit or soul, as opposed to material or physical things, relate to religion or religious belief, be employed in contemporary religious discourse as a fashionable concept. History: latin word meaning to tie or bind. European explorers sought to understand the peoples and places they were encountering, they naturally tired to fit them into the framework provided by their own culture the result was a classification system, or taxonomy, of world religions. Problems with the world religion classification: attempting to decipher the single quality or essence of a particular traditions, idea of a prototype.