ANTH 1150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Cargo Cult, Rastafari, Syncretism

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 1150
• Professor: Victor Gulewitsch

Document Summary

How humans make sense of the unknown and the supernatural. Every culture has a relationship with some sort of religion that defines us as human beings. Co(cid:373)petiti(cid:448)e aspe(cid:272)t: (cid:862)m(cid:455) supe(cid:396)(cid:374)atu(cid:396)al f(cid:396)ie(cid:374)d is (cid:271)ette(cid:396) tha(cid:374) (cid:455)ou(cid:396)s(cid:863), (cid:862)m(cid:455) (cid:396)eligio(cid:374) is the t(cid:396)ue (cid:396)eligio(cid:374)(cid:863) Its not possible to prove that o(cid:374)e"s (cid:396)eligio(cid:374) is (cid:396)eal (cid:271)(cid:455) (cid:396)efe(cid:396)(cid:396)i(cid:374)g to s(cid:272)ie(cid:374)(cid:272)e, (cid:271)ut (cid:373)e(cid:396)el(cid:455) (cid:396)e(cid:395)ui(cid:396)es us to have faith. Religion is an existential condition that is part of being human. Something you can document, the greeks knew much of life was logos. Mythos: they also believed that life also believed mythos, which is basically the story. Animism: spiritual entity that resides in something, a force that resides in things or places is at the heart of what tyler says. When you look to religion it provides many reasons to be alive. Religion usually provides justice; notion of human conduct that punishes and rewards for who you are as a person.