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What is “Religion”? Early Stages of Development

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Jeanine Diller Models of God

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Global-Critical Philosophy of Religion with Tim Knepper

59:00

What is Hopeful Theism? With Fidel Arnecillo

25:43

What is Contextual Theology?

9:41

Marxism and Religion with Ben Burgis

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What is “Religion”? The Anthropology of Religion

Thanks so much for watching today’s video, I hope you enjoy it. And if you’re new, consider subscribing. What is “religion”? In the first episode we looked at some of the early stages of development and in this episode were going to talk about the anthropology of religion. In future episodes we’re going to get into the sociology of religion, psychology, phenomenology (or experience of religion), and finally the comparison of religion. Today, we’re going to take a look at anthropology and religion through the lenses of four important figures: E. B. Tylor, James George Frazer, E. E. Evans-Pritchard, and Clifford Geertz.
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0:00 Intro
1:54 What is Anthropology?
3:15 E. B. Tylor
7:59 James George Frazer
13:03 E. E. Evans-Pritchard
18:21 Clifford Geertz
21:08 Wrap-up
E. B. Tylor main works:
1874, Primitive Culture: Researches into the development of mythology, philosophy, religion, language, art and custom, 2 volumes.
1881, Anthropology: An Introduction to the Study of Man and Civilization
James George Frazer works:
1890, The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion, 2 volumes
1900, The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion, 3 volumes
1906-1915, The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion, 12 volumes
Great biography: 1987, Robert Ackerman, J. G. Frazer: His Life and Work
E. E. Evans-Pritchard main works:
1940, The Nuer: A Description of the Modes of Livelihood and Political Institutions of a Nilotic People
1951, Kinship and Marriage Among the Nuer
1951, Social Anthropology
1956, Nuer Religion
1965, Theories of Primitive Religion
1981, A History of Anthropological Thought
Clifford Geertz main works:
1960, The Religion of Java
1968, Islam Observed: Religious Development in Morocco and Indonesia
1973, The Interpretation of Cultures
1983, Local Knowledge
2000, Available Light: Anthropological Reflections on Philosophical Topics
Episodes about religious symbols:
The Truth of Broken Symbols, czcams.com/video/yn_FjDaprdg/video.html
What Happens When Religious Symbols No Longer Work?, czcams.com/video/rx5GQl4JHgE/video.html
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What is “Religion”? Early Stages of Development

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Thanks so much for watching today’s video, I hope you enjoy it. And if you’re new, consider subscribing. What is “religion”? In this episode we’re going to take a look at some of the early stages of development of the academic field of religion and then in later episodes talk about the anthropology of religion, sociology of religion, psychology of religion, phenomenology of religion (or experie...

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Jeanine Diller Models of God

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Thanks so much for watching today’s video, I hope you enjoy it. And if you’re new, consider subscribing. Jeanine Diller is a philosopher and scholar of religion who edited a huge book titled, Models of God and Alternate Ultimate Realities back in 2013. She has also done some research on multiple religious belonging and has taught religion for many years. We’re going to get into all of these top...

Global-Critical Philosophy of Religion with Tim Knepper

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Global-Critical Philosophy of Religion with Tim Knepper

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Thanks so much for watching today’s video, I hope you enjoy it. And if you’re new, consider subscribing. Global-Critical Philosophy of Religion is a movement which aims to push people beyond the typical Western categories of talking about philosophy of religion. I spoke with Tim Knepper from Drake University, one of the main people who started this initiative nearly a decade ago. Help support t...

What is Hopeful Theism? With Fidel Arnecillo

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What is Hopeful Theism? With Fidel Arnecillo

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Thanks so much for watching today’s video, I hope you enjoy it. And if you’re new, consider subscribing. What is hopeful theism? Check out my interview with Dr. Fidel Arnecillo where he talks about his position of hopeful theism and the philosophical difference between believing and hoping. We also talk about evidence, different views of “God” and ethics in how a hopeful theist should live. Hel...

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What is Contextual Theology?

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Thanks so much for watching today’s video, I hope you enjoy it. And if you’re new, consider subscribing. What is contextual theology? Let’s take a look at the six different models: the countercultural, translation, synthetic, praxis, anthropological and transcendental models. Help support the channel at ko-fi.com/tenonreligion 0:00 Intro 0:37 What is contextual theology? 3:38 Countercultural mo...

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Marxism and Religion with Ben Burgis

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What Happens When Religious Symbols No Longer Work?

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What Happens When Religious Symbols No Longer Work?

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Thanks so much for watching today’s video, I hope you enjoy it. And if you’re new, consider subscribing. What happens when religious symbols no longer work? Raimon Panikkar’s answer used the word “myth” in a new and fascinating way, talks about the relationship between religion and symbol as relativity, and describes reconstruction of the new myth as a new innocence. Paul Ricoeur differentiated...

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What is Deconstruction?

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Can We Compare Religions?

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Thanks so much for watching today’s video, I hope you enjoy it. And if you’re new, consider subscribing. Can we compare religions? In what ways can we understand religions different from our own? We’re going to take a look at five different subtopics to help answer these questions. First, internal vs. external comparing. Second, five common categories in comparing. Third, how hermeneutics and l...

Should We All Agree? Pluralism vs. Consensus

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Should We All Agree? Pluralism vs. Consensus

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Thanks so much for watching today’s video, I hope you enjoy it. And if you’re new, consider subscribing. What is pluralism vs. consensus? Do we all need to agree on truth or to have a good society? Or maybe it just doesn’t matter? Let’s talk about these issues as they relate to truth, pluralism, rationality, communication, social order and religion. Nicholas Rescher says acquiescence is the key...

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Heidegger and Religion?

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Thanks so much for watching today’s video, I hope you enjoy it. And if you’re new, consider subscribing. Let’s explain some of Heidegger’s main ideas so we can understand why his philosophy is so important for understanding religion. We’re going to talk about the concept of Dasein, the difference between the ontical and the ontological, inauthentic and authentic existence as it relates to finit...

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How Did We Get The Bible?

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Thanks so much for watching today’s video, I hope you enjoy it. Where did the Bible come from? We will differentiate between the authorship process and the collection process, talk about the concept of a canon, develop a Hebrew Bible timeline, briefly mention the physical media, the apocrypha, Jerome and the Vulgate Bible, and then wrap things up with a statement…that you might not want to hear...

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What Language Does God Speak?

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Thanks so much for watching today’s video, I hope you enjoy it. Did you know that when the New Testament authors and early church leaders read and quoted passages from what Christians now call the Old Testament, that wasn’t the same Old Testament modern Christians read today? It was a completely different version in a completely different language which begs the question, what language does God...

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How Do We Understand Religion?

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Thanks so much for watching today’s video, I hope you enjoy it. How do we understand religion? We’re going to first talk about intersubjectivity, or what the philosopher Husserl calls “We-subjectivity” and how this leads to his idea of a “life-world.” Then we’ll get into the idea of the historicity of understanding and how it effects all the possible ways we could understand the past by talking...