SOC 130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Human Behavioral Ecology, Vision Quest, Ethnobotany

• School: University of Hartford
• Department: Sociology - A&S
• Course: SOC 130
• Professor: Farley William

Document Summary

Psychologists, etc. : anthropological view of religion, interested in the social nature and roles of religion including: Answers questions for which here are no answers: religion can validate. Pulls group together: handle emotionally disturbing problems. Turn to it when other stress mechanisms are not working: some functional examples from christianity, explanatory. All things came into being through him, and without him, not one thing came into being. : validatory. Integration: going to church as a religious requirement, origins of religion, remain unclear, neanderthals buried their dead. By at least 130,000 years ago: religious behaviors as early as 300,000 years ago. 35,000 years ago: venus figurines: different types of religion, fertility goddess, animism, mana, polytheism, monotheism, magic, animism, religion as an attempt to explain the unexplainable, death, dreaming and trance, dreaming and trance. Similar to notion of luck: people attribute success to mana, people can acquire mana through magic, objects with mana can change someone"s luck, explains differential success.