REL 109 Midterm – Buddhism. Top Exam Questions with answers. Rated A

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REL 109 Midterm – Buddhism. Top Exam Questions with answers. Rated A Key Features of the academic study of religion - ✔✔--Gaining Religious Literacy (and thus cultural literacy) -Ability t... o understand and perceive cultures and traditions and the lifestyles of a society and its people Prothero: Theologians vs. Religious studies scholars - ✔✔--Theologians: Do religion i.Focus on studying and promoting particular set of truths -Religious studies scholars: study religious people do i.) neutral, study different religions equally Toelken: why being reflexive about biases is important - ✔✔--Bias is dangerous and has led to many terrible travesties, genocide, hate -Importance of seeing other cultures "through the native eye" Harvey: what does he suggest on finding answers about religion? - ✔✔--Harvey suggest LOOKING ELSEWHRE -> in that we need to go outside the classroom to truly understand religion in daily life -Pay attention to the ordinary Explain concept of 'selfhood' w/ the King Milinda story - ✔✔-Metaphor of the chariot -we use a term like "chariot" to describe an idea of the thing we perceive -Just as we use names, and terms ('athlete') to describe our "selfs" Explain the Buddhist model for achieving nirvana - ✔✔--To end craving is to end suffering -No more clinging to 'self' or earthly things -To end craving one must follow the Noble Eightfold Path "Religio" - ✔✔-"To bind in obligation" or "To practice rites carefully" Stephen Prothero - ✔✔--Introduces Religious Literacy -Scholars vs. Theologians Religious Literacy - ✔✔---Religious literacy is the key to cultural literacy -Ability to understand and perceive cultures and traditions and the lifestyles of a society and its people Religious Scholars - ✔✔--Study people who DO religion -'non-religious study of religion' -Study all religions equally and neutrally Theology - ✔✔-"The Study of God" -Focus on studying and promoting a particular set of truths -They DO religion Dimensions of Religion - ✔✔-Developed by Ninian Smart -14 dimensions -Any phenomenon can (and should) be examined from all of these perspectives since they all interrelate and affect each other Oxford historian of the Indian culture - ✔✔--One of the founder of religious studies - some argue is the FOUNDER -Translates the sacred books of the east series -introduction of the aryan race Philology - ✔✔-The study of literary texts and of written records and their original form and authenticity - and then the determination of their meaning Emile Durkheim - ✔✔-A father of sociology -discusses the SACRED -"Religion is a unified set of beliefs and practices relative to SACRED things, beliefs, and practices which unite into one single moral community -RELIGION IS THE BASIS OF SOCIETY -Religion has 2 functions 1.) Brings people together 2.) Gives people a way of understanding + seeing society Karl Marx - ✔✔-Religion plays a role in the process of oppression + exploitation 1.) It obscures harsh realities with a warm glow 2.) It gives an ideology of false consciousness, a distorted view of reality 3.) It makes oppression seem natural + 'god-given' Waves of Feminism - ✔✔-First Wave (19th century) -Small number of elite women in the West challenging the dominance of men Second Wave (1960s and 70s) -Much wider explosion of feminist scholarship + activism in all of society Third Wave (began more recently) -Cross-cultural set of perspectives -Category of gender one of many objective categories of difference Toelken - ✔✔-Seeing with a native eye -Recognizes that different cultures see the world differently and often expect other to see the world the same way they do Freud - ✔✔--Religion is a neurotic condition, an illusion, an infantile dependence, and wish-fulfillment (gets power from the fact that it falls in our instinctual desires) Harvey - ✔✔-Introduces LOOKING ELSEWHERE -Study the ordinary, study religion in daily life LIVED RELIGIONS -It's in the real world of relationships and perfor [Show More]

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