Final Flashcards
How scientific discoveries drive religion to think or refine attitudes towards patriarchy
-Religious interpretations of gender roles as fixed or divinely ordained may be reexamined in light of scientific evidence
-This suggests that social structures, including patriarchy, have evolved over time
-As scientists investigate the neural basis of decision making and social roles, religious perspectives on gender roles may be influenced, prompting a reassessment of traditional beliefs about the inherent roles of men and women
-As individuals have more control over reproductive choices, religious perspectives on women’s roles in family life may evolve
Ownership: at birth you get your dad’s last name and at marriage you get your husband’s last name
How do scientific discoveries drive religion to rethink or refine attitudes towards the question of death
-As science provides new insights into the nature of life, consciousness, and the universe, religious traditions often find themselves rethinking or refining their perspectives on what happens after death
-Discoveries in astrophysics and cosmology have expanded our understanding of the vastness and complexity of the universe
-This may influence religious cosmologies and perspectives on the afterlife, as believers grapple with the implications of a universe that extends far beyond what was once imagined
-religious interpretations of creation stories may evolve in response to scientific understandings, leading to a more metaphorical or symbolic interpretation of religious texts
Myth
a sacred story that founds or grounds a particular religious world
ritual
the re-enactment of a myth through repeated scripted actions usually in a culturally prescribed space and by a religious specialist
types of rituals:
worship particular deity
pilgrimage - traveling to sacred site
Sacred
special or set apart from the ordinary and is often described as a power or presence at once terrifying or attractive
Hierophany
A manifestation or appearance of the sacred mostly through human interaction with the natural world
Entheogens (vs terms psychedelics, hallucinogens, and drugs)
-having the property to evoke the divine within/ to generate one’s own god/divinity
-unlocking the divine within
Psychedelics: mind manifesting
Hallucinogen: generator of hallucinations
Drug: an substance that alters physiological or psychological functions
Loaded down w moralisms, controversial, can harm shamanic cultures that can see ingestion of ayahuasca/psilocybin as a sacrament
John Hopkins study on psilocybin, meditation, and spiritual practices
-This study administered psilocybin to participants who undertook program of meditation/spiritual practices
-randomized to 3 group
-Low does w standard support for spiritual practice
-High dose w standard support
-High dose w high support for spiritual practice
Altered state of conciousness
forms of mind, often an extreme religious nature, that are experienced as radically other than the social ego
Draper-White thesis
-Draper white believes that religion will eventually lose out to science
-emphasizes conflict and the attempted suppression of science by religious authorities
Merton thesis
emphasizes resonance and religions influence on the development of science
Purity codes (especially with food and sexuality)
-by assigning categories of purity and pollution to daily acts, foods, places, and persons, a society defines not only what a people can eat, but also what it can touch, with whom the individuals belonging to it can mingle or eat, whom they can marry, how ill, wounded, or dead bodies are to be handled, what constitutes a polluting sore or disease, what kind of sexual act is proper, and so. on. Purity codes are one way in which religious communities structure daily life and maintain both psychological and social boundaries
Super sexualities
-human sexuality can manifest dimensions in powers that far overflow any specific understandings of the human body: sex morphs into spirit
Routinization/Institutionalization of charisma
-New prophets
-Rebirth of old ideas and ideals
-If neither, mechanized petrification embellished with a sort of convulsive self importance, aka what happened to gandhi and mlk
Eschatology - Death, near-death experiences, and life after death possibilities
-soul goes to a good or bad place
-soul remains on earth
-reincarnation
-could be into animal
-multiverse
-just dead
-bodily resurrection of dead like jesus
-nietzsche
-eternal recurrence
