Lecture 1

Question 1

What is anthropology of religion?

Answer 1

Religion is studied to give meaning to the world

human-made

matter over mind

Question 2

Global perspective of religion

Answer 2

Global scene –> religion as trans local / disembedded

transnational relations

Mediazation

mobility –> literal / metaphysical

Question 3

Tweed theory of religion

Answer 3

understanding religious life of migrants;

movement
relation
position

Question 4

Appadurai scapes of globalisation

Answer 4

scapes - how culture around the world influences each other

ethnoscape
finanscape
mediascape
ideoscape
technoscape

Question 5

ethnoscape

Answer 5

the flow of people;

migrants
refugee
asylum seekers

Question 6

finanscape

Answer 6

the flow of money;

national stock exchanges, etc

Question 7

ideoscape

Answer 7

the flow of ideas;

human rights, environmentalism, fear of terrorism

Question 8

mediascape

Answer 8

the flow of information;

newspaper, articles, television channels, etc.

Question 9

technoscape

Answer 9

the flow of technology;

ex. hardware components

Question 10

Tweed - parallel image of religion

Answer 10

sacroscrape;

religion is not fixed / static

religion is a ‘flow’ that keeps reshaping a built environment

Question 11

Thomas Csordas - 4 modalities of global religious intersubjectivity

Answer 11

transnational transcendence;

the existence of modalities of religious transcendence

both empirically compelling & transcending cultural boundaries / borders`

Question 12

Religious intersubjectivity

Answer 12

single subject belief that each individuals has the same belief

Question 13

Modality

Answer 13

type of behaviour that is from a particular person / group

Question 14

4 modalities of religion

Answer 14

pan-indigenous interaction

re globalisation of world religion

reverse religious flow (groisman)

religious imagination interacting with global economy

Question 15

Pan-indigenous interaction

Answer 15

indigenous group sharing experience / knowledge

Question 16

reglobalisation of world religions

Answer 16

reverse flow / mission

global south expanding religion to Europe / north america

Question 17

Reverse religious flow (groisman)

Answer 17

from periphery –> center

religious practices moving from global periphery

periphery of global economic power to center of global economic power

ex. Santo daime

Question 18

Alberto Groisman; Santo Diame in the NL

Answer 18

Santo Diame - syncratic religion

central ritual

Question 19

Santo Diame ; syncratic religion

Answer 19

syncratic religion;

combines one or two religious belief systems into one new system

–> combine catholism, afro brazilian traditions, shamanism

Question 20

Central ritual;

Answer 20

drinking of Daime = anuyasha

seen as a sacrament (ritualized notion of grace)

encounter w/ the sacred (this encounter involves hallucinations)

Question 21

Alberto Groisman

Answer 21

Post colonial dynamics

Dynamic between salvationist ethos & growing religious demand of europeans

Question 22

Post-colonial dynamics

Answer 22

relation between formally colonised countries and formally colonising countries

relation to Santo daime - reverse flow of religious information (that people carry)

Question 23

Dynamic between salvationist ethos & growing religious demand of europeans

Answer 23

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”

Question 24

Main takeaway from Alberto groisman;

Answer 24

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