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KEY CONCEPTS AND THEORIES - Coggle Diagram
KEY CONCEPTS AND THEORIES
Material Religion and the Senses
Mallory Nye:
Orientation Unit, Making their own religiosisties and experiences manifest. Doing of religion.
Mircea Eliade
: Heirophanies - sacred manifestations.
Meyer
: Materiality inextricably linked to religion. Including sacred texts.
Brent Plate
Orient read 1: Sensory perception of objects, touching books, hearing church bells etc., bring value and meaning to a religious experience.
I. Weiner
Sounds and silence section: bells - changing impact and technological impact.
Owen Coggins
- online activity sound block 4 2.2 p.267: Drone Metal like Om. Liquid religion merging of different influences.
Religion as Belief
Texts - storehouses of information.
16thC. ProtRef placed geat emphasis on religion as belief
Enlightenment - 18th/19thC scholars looked at other religions through the lens of religion as belief.
Current thinking that this is not isolated and is very diverse merging with other concepts.
Oral transmission - narratives passed down through generations like Volores de Pampantla from TMA04.
Diversity of belief even within institutional religion.
Liquid religion - Rizalism p. 178 block 1 unit 4 vs. Cargo Cults block 4 unit 1 p.27 - reading
Contentious issues between hard line fundamentalists i.e Taliban vs. Mystical Sufism - TMA05.
Vernacular/lived religion.
Leonard Primiano
- Vernacular religion - "religion as it is lived: as human beings encounter, understand, interpret and practice it. Since religion inherently involves interpretation, it is impossible for the religion of an individual not to be vernacular.’ Folklore book.
Orsi - TMA03
- everyday religion. Personal and private aspect - similarites with vernacular - subtle differences. p. 277- practices reading 5.1 belief..
Gwilym Beckerlegge/ Hillary Rodrigues p.153 "Doings of Religion" - "Studying Religions in Practice".
Mary Douglas Block 2 Unit 1 p.40:
Material as well - foodways - impact of food in religion in practice & experience. Anthropoligcal approach.
Sacred Places/Secularisation.
Council/planning permission impact on religious sounds like church bells, Muslim call to prayer.
India Block 1 p.111: Sacred country "Punya Bhumi" - Blessed/Holy land.
Religion in decline argument - 2021 census showing drop in those identifying as Christians and increase in the nones - argue not secularisation but a changing in the way religion is done.
G.Davie - Places p.297 5.2 " A short afterword" - spacial religion and what their spaces are used for Cross over with secular world.
Swami V p.269 reading 4.2 reshaping of traditions - example of diaspora and Hinduism moving to the West - i.e BAPs Neasden Temple
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