Lecture 1 Flashcards
(24 cards)
What is anthropology of religion?
Religion is studied to give meaning to the world
human-made
matter over mind
Global perspective of religion
Global scene –> religion as trans local / disembedded
transnational relations
Mediazation
mobility –> literal / metaphysical
Tweed theory of religion
understanding religious life of migrants;
movement
relation
position
Appadurai scapes of globalisation
scapes - how culture around the world influences each other
ethnoscape finanscape mediascape ideoscape technoscape
ethnoscape
the flow of people;
migrants
refugee
asylum seekers
finanscape
the flow of money;
national stock exchanges, etc
ideoscape
the flow of ideas;
human rights, environmentalism, fear of terrorism
mediascape
the flow of information;
newspaper, articles, television channels, etc.
technoscape
the flow of technology;
ex. hardware components
Tweed - parallel image of religion
sacroscrape;
religion is not fixed / static
religion is a ‘flow’ that keeps reshaping a built environment
Thomas Csordas - 4 modalities of global religious intersubjectivity
transnational transcendence;
the existence of modalities of religious transcendence
both empirically compelling & transcending cultural boundaries / borders`
Religious intersubjectivity
single subject belief that each individuals has the same belief
Modality
type of behaviour that is from a particular person / group
4 modalities of religion
pan-indigenous interaction
re globalisation of world religion
reverse religious flow (groisman)
religious imagination interacting with global economy
Pan-indigenous interaction
indigenous group sharing experience / knowledge
reglobalisation of world religions
reverse flow / mission
global south expanding religion to Europe / north america
Reverse religious flow (groisman)
from periphery –> center
religious practices moving from global periphery
periphery of global economic power to center of global economic power
ex. Santo daime
Alberto Groisman; Santo Diame in the NL
Santo Diame - syncratic religion
central ritual
Santo Diame ; syncratic religion
syncratic religion;
combines one or two religious belief systems into one new system
–> combine catholism, afro brazilian traditions, shamanism
Central ritual;
drinking of Daime = anuyasha
seen as a sacrament (ritualized notion of grace)
encounter w/ the sacred (this encounter involves hallucinations)
Alberto Groisman
Post colonial dynamics
Dynamic between salvationist ethos & growing religious demand of europeans
Post-colonial dynamics
relation between formally colonised countries and formally colonising countries
relation to Santo daime - reverse flow of religious information (that people carry)
Dynamic between salvationist ethos & growing religious demand of europeans
Santo Diane –> missionary movement (spread Christianity to new converts)
potential converts are eager to gain spiritual knowledge (indigenous)
Revise and repair periphery / center –> “reparation project”
Main takeaway from Alberto groisman;
The belief that Europe had, has been alienated due to modernisation, europeans are turning to indigenous knowledge tradition to find something that is lost
“reparation project” –> repairing European expansion
