ANTH 3101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: New Religious Movement, Native American Church, Religion In The United States
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Myths are sacred narratives that tell how the world came to be created. Clifford geertz - religion is a system of symbols which acts to establish powerful, pervasive, and long-lasting moods and motivations in men. Victor turner - rites of passage: separation, liminal, reincorporation. Religion expresses the way groups of people explain how life and humanity have been created, how their ancestors originated, and why life has to be live under certain circumstances. Sir edward tylor defined religion as belief in supernatural beings. Supernatural refers to powers, events, and experiences beyond ordinary human control and laws of nature and outside reality as normally experienced. Western tradition is very much rooted in binary oppositions. Marxist lens, where society"s relationship to production of goods is comprised of (1) infrastructure, (2) structure, and (3) superstructure - religion. Religion helps build and maintain the social order (emile durkheim)
