RS110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Mircea Eliade, Huldrych Zwingli, Friedrich Schleiermacher

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RS110
• Professor: Ricardo Quadros Gouvea

Document Summary

Eight main attitudes and postures: radical; fundamentalist; prophetic; fanatic, conservative; particularistic; proselytizer, devotional; utilitarian, mystic; universalist, respectful; eventual participant. May be said to be too credulous. May be said to be too suspicious. May be said to be too impious. The complexity of taxonomy: dead & alive, old & new. Institutional & non-institutional: primitive & civilized, primal & complex. Superstitions & supernatural: ethnic & universal world religions , eastern & western, prophetic & mystical (ethics vs. transcendence, abrahamic religions (judaism, islam, christianity, christianity began as a jewish sect, koran states that moses and jesus were prophets. Essential definitions: religion is a feeling of absolute dependence upon a higher power. William james (1842-1910: religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of the meaning of life.