RMG 200- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 24 pages long!)

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Retail Management
• Course: RMG 200
• Professor: Raj Balkaran

Document Summary

Why study: key understanding to human experience, personal and group identity, global neighborhood, political tensions. No, the key is to be par mentalist: they are different even if it is the same relationship, no judgment of who has the right worldview. World religions: 75% (hindu, buddhist, christian, muslim, eastern: hinduism, buddhism, jainism, sikhism, far eastern: confucianism, daoism, shinto, anthropology of religion - experience of primitive/tribal (oldest & purest form of religion) What is real: theological approaches emic perspective, intellectualize within the religion (how do we make sense of this worldview, western: judaism, christianity, islam (abrahamic time is parallel) Sacred time holy moments of day, week or month. Sacred space place where people pray (temple, mosque, church: ritual common, misunderstood aspect of religion; secular: getting coffee in the morning, mentality of a (cid:498)false gods(cid:499) no power of the lord (monotheism) Continuity in the east (hinduism, buddhism, jainism: culture with money survives, ethics and moral systems.