Category of Religion - Quotes

Question 1

listed over 50 definitions

Answer 1

Leuba’s ‘Psychological Study of Religion’ (1912)

Question 2

distorted that which it was trying to understand

Answer 2

Fitzgerald

Question 3

‘religio’ etymological root in Latin ‘religio’ which derives from ‘re-ligare’ (to bind again)

Answer 3

Nongbri

Question 4

‘religio’ translated as ‘scruples’ (‘I had scruples, I could not decline/‘religio fuit)

Answer 4

Plautus (2nd-cent playwright)

Question 5

‘a universal tendency among mankind to conceive of all beings like themselves… in order to bring them nearer to a resemblance with ourselves’

Answer 5

Tylor

Question 6

‘an ideological assertion that strives to recreate the Other in its own image.’

Answer 6

Fitzgerald

Question 7

‘a transcendent intelligent being who gives purpose and meaning to human history’

Answer 7

Fitzgerald

Question 8

‘wider historical process of western imperialism, colonialism, and neo-colonialism’

Answer 8

Fitzgerald

Question 9

‘when the frontier opens, the enemy has no religion, but when the frontier closes, and hegemony has been established, a dominated, subjugated people are discovered to have a religion that can be inventoried and analysed’

Answer 9

Chidester

Question 10

‘it is not universal, nor is there commonality: no two nations, and scarce any two men, have ever agreed precisely the same sentiments… Religion fails the minimal requirement for innateness, that it be absolutely universal in all nations and ages and has a ‘precise’ determinable object, which it inflexibly pursues.’

Answer 10

Hume

Question 11

‘Probably a crab would be filled with a sense of personal outrage if it could hear us class it without ado or apology as a crustacean, and thus dispose of it. ‘I am no such thing,’ it would say, ‘I am myself, myself alone.’

Answer 11

W.James

Question 12

‘the sick mind continues to infinity, creating groups then dispersing them again, heaping up diverse similarities, destroying those that seem clearest, splitting up things that are identical, superimposing different criteria.’

Answer 12

Foucault

Question 13

The grid created by a glance

Answer 13

Foucault

Question 14

‘never succeed in defining a stable relation of contained to container between each of these categories and that which includes them all.’

Answer 14

Foucault

Question 15

meaning of word is ‘its use in language’

Answer 15

Nongbri