In the "Living Religions" Ninth Edition book, there was one paragraph that really stuck out at me on page three.
"In many cultures and times, religion has been the basic foundation of life, permeating all aspects of human existence. But from the time of the European Enlightenment, religion has become in the West an object to be studied, rather than an unquestioned basic fact of life. Cultural anthropologist, sociologist, philosophers, psychologists, and even biologist have peered at religion through their own particular lenses, trying to explain what religion is and why it exist to those who no longer take it for granted."
This paragraph really got my blood pumping. I got so excited once I read the word "object" in reference to religion. People …show more content…
I cannot tell you how many times I have been "defriended" in my high school and felt ashamed of myself simply because I was not Christian. Most, not all, of the Republican nominees for Presidency campaign on religion. They get half of their votes simply because of their religion. If that isn 't objectifying then i don 't know what is. The West is taking something so gentle and fragile, in my eyes, and using it as a pawn to win people over or to hurt someone. People in the West don 't believe in abortion or gay marriage even though they both are legal. So these people who are against these issues will vocally demolish you as a human for your non-conservative views. In the "Living Religions" the Third Edition, there was a quote that supports what I 'm trying to say, "As the world shrinks with globalization, the …show more content…
You were either raised to respect other religions or you weren’t. Studying religion from a sociologist’s stand point will be completely different then the biologist stand point. Now a sociologist is a person who studies the structure and function of society. They will possible see religion has a glue or a belief that separates society. And that doesn’t include their own personal bias or prejudice against a religion or religion as a whole. A biologist may look at religion as a myth. Biologist look at the study of life and organisms. Because a biologist cannot touch religion or study is as an object, they may not see all of a religious purposes or aspects. It is very hard to say, with the lenses everyone wears, how someone will see something when they are looking at it from a different view point from everyone else. Now some benefits could be that you are looking at religion from a new and different angle with every new person you ask, but none of the answer may match up. As a disadvantage, you will get all sorts of different answers so you can’t get a real
"In many cultures and times, religion has been the basic foundation of life, permeating all aspects of human existence. But from the time of the European Enlightenment, religion has become in the West an object to be studied, rather than an unquestioned basic fact of life. Cultural anthropologist, sociologist, philosophers, psychologists, and even biologist have peered at religion through their own particular lenses, trying to explain what religion is and why it exist to those who no longer take it for granted."
This paragraph really got my blood pumping. I got so excited once I read the word "object" in reference to religion. People …show more content…
I cannot tell you how many times I have been "defriended" in my high school and felt ashamed of myself simply because I was not Christian. Most, not all, of the Republican nominees for Presidency campaign on religion. They get half of their votes simply because of their religion. If that isn 't objectifying then i don 't know what is. The West is taking something so gentle and fragile, in my eyes, and using it as a pawn to win people over or to hurt someone. People in the West don 't believe in abortion or gay marriage even though they both are legal. So these people who are against these issues will vocally demolish you as a human for your non-conservative views. In the "Living Religions" the Third Edition, there was a quote that supports what I 'm trying to say, "As the world shrinks with globalization, the …show more content…
You were either raised to respect other religions or you weren’t. Studying religion from a sociologist’s stand point will be completely different then the biologist stand point. Now a sociologist is a person who studies the structure and function of society. They will possible see religion has a glue or a belief that separates society. And that doesn’t include their own personal bias or prejudice against a religion or religion as a whole. A biologist may look at religion as a myth. Biologist look at the study of life and organisms. Because a biologist cannot touch religion or study is as an object, they may not see all of a religious purposes or aspects. It is very hard to say, with the lenses everyone wears, how someone will see something when they are looking at it from a different view point from everyone else. Now some benefits could be that you are looking at religion from a new and different angle with every new person you ask, but none of the answer may match up. As a disadvantage, you will get all sorts of different answers so you can’t get a real