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9 Cards in this Set
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Assessment of reductionism |
religion is something special and autonomous: it cannot be reduced to the social, economic, or psychological. |
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Like Durkhiem, Eliade... |
Saw the sacred as central to religion, but differs in that the sacred deals with the supernatural and not with society |
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Hierophany |
the ordinary life of a person is connected to the sacred by the appearance of the sacred (signs and symbols)-- the hierophant |
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Theophay |
appearance of God as a special hierophant |
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Myth of Eternal Return |
Men long to return to the lost paradise in an attempt to escape meaninglessness. Man wishes to escape the terror of time |
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Myth of Eternal Return (primitive man) |
primitive man could not endure that his struggle to survive had no meaning. Man had a "nostalgic" longing for an otherworldly perfection. |
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Christianity and judaism revolted against cyclical time by... |
providing meaning and contact with the sacred through the God of Israel... their eschatological theology |
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Critiques |
avoided reductionism by studying comparative religions and various cultures: he STILL often relied on second hand sources criticized for vagueness, and out-of-context comparisons (between various and totally different cultures) |
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Limitations |
Possibly has pro-religious bias towards Christianity and Hinduism |
