World Religions

World Religions

Eliade
1. What is religion?
a. Belief system that gives value or meaning to peoples existence
b. Personal religion versus institutional religion
2. Myth/Mythic
a. Truth in an explanatory way
b. Attempts to explain religion
c. Presence of the sacred and profane
3. Sacred and Profane
a. Modes of being in the world
b. Existing in relation to other things
c. Things and space are sacred because of a persons relationship with it
4. Sacred
a. Opposite of the profane
b. Cosmos
c. Order
d. Heterogeneous
i. Mixed kind
e. Must be assigned qualitative value
5. Profane
a. Chaos
b. Disorder
c. Homogenous
i. Same kind
6. Religious man
a. One who lives or tries to live in a sacred world
b. No religious man
i. Each person gravitates toward something
ii. Sacred has become lost
7. Cosmogony
a. The creation of the cosmos
b. Serial cos...