RLGN 3110 Study Guide - Winter 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes -
12 Oct 2018
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RLGN 3110
MIDTERM EXAM
STUDY GUIDE
Fall 2018
Mirroring the exact formula in which scholars develop their studies
“We are all religious” implies:
we are all believers in X
symbols
universal
valuable/meaningful
ethics/norms
religion (sacred, holy, pure)
——————
non-religion (irrelevant, profane, mundane)
I have a hunch focuses on studying experiences (public, expressed, universal, timeless, deeply
felt) Cannot be expressed easily with language, non observable
Personal experiences cause actions.
Why are you here?
•degree
•learn
•job
•$
•buy cool stuff
•live comfortably
•die with nice things
•signifies success
•why success?
•someone told you that you want to be successful
to speak with authority
Religious experience is non reducible to any other field (ex. linguistics, economics etc) it cannot
be reduced to anything or explained by any of them
“I feel the same way”saying this probably doesn't mean that you feel the same way, its a political
move that you make in order to gain reciprocity in an attempt to bond and have people affiliate
with you
We created a masculine ideology and feminine ideology and THEN applied it to biological
differences after the fact. We created the ideologies first and then realized we could assign them
to biological differences because in theory we could have divided up society in any number of
ways.
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Document Summary
Mirroring the exact formula in which scholars develop their studies. We are all religious implies: we are all believers in x symbols universal valuable/meaningful ethics/norms religion (sacred, holy, pure) non-religion (irrelevant, profane, mundane) I have a hunch focuses on studying experiences (public, expressed, universal, timeless, deeply felt) cannot be expressed easily with language, non observable. Why are you here: degree, learn, job, buy cool stuff, live comfortably, die with nice things, signi es success, why success, someone told you that you want to be successful to speak with authority. Religious experience is non reducible to any other eld (ex. linguistics, economics etc) it cannot be reduced to anything or explained by any of them. I feel the same way saying this probably doesn"t mean that you feel the same way, its a political move that you make in order to gain reciprocity in an attempt to bond and have people af liate with you.
