Intro

Question 1

What are the Ninian Smart 7 Dimensions of Religion?

Answer 1

• ritual
• narrative and mythic
• experiential and emotional
• social and institutional
• ethical and legal
• doctrinal and philosophical
• material

Question 2

What did Ludwig Feuerbach belive?

Answer 2

We invented God. We project out best selves onto God to fulfill human needs. Religion is still important socially.

Question 3

What did E.B. Tylor believe?

Answer 3

Religion is a tool to explain things we do not understand. Animism. There are spirits in everything that stay after you die. You outgrow religion.

Question 4

What did Karl Marx believe?

Answer 4

people feel alienated so they turn to religion. State replaces religion, keeps people in their place.

Question 5

What did Emile Durkheim believe?

Answer 5

Community is God, is a social product that comes from its functionality.

Question 6

What did William James believe?

Answer 6

Religion comes from a want for something greater and some sort of unseen order.

Question 7

What did Sigmund Freud believe?

Answer 7

Guilt caused religion. We seek forgiveness.

Question 8

What did Rudolf Otto believe?

Answer 8

There is an awareness of something else, we believe in something powerful.

Question 9

What did Rodney Stark believe?

Answer 9

People make choices feely based on positive or negative incentives. Recognize external obligation while reducing existential worry. Rational choice theory.

Question 10

What did Justin Barrett believe?

Answer 10

We are born with a tendency to believe in God.