Christianity and the World_01_Fall 2023 first week_second_day_en.pdf

Some Basics, Again! (From <Religion: the basics> by Malory Nye “The religion strongly influences the culture, and the culture is itself the medium through which the religion is experienced and practised. In other words, the ‘religion’ is not some free-floating thing that exists outside of the cultur...

Some Basics, Again! (From <Religion: the basics> by Malory Nye “The religion strongly influences the culture, and the culture is itself the medium through which the religion is experienced and practised. In other words, the ‘religion’ is not some free-floating thing that exists outside of the cultural setting; to understand it we must also understand that context.” Some Basics, Again. Academic Agnosticism “Many (not all) religions are practised in a way that presumes a reality beyond humans such as gods, deities, supernaturalism. But scholars have to adopt in their approach an element of academic neutrality in this area. Indeed this may also require an element of scholarly ‘agnosticism’, by recognising that in these studies we should only claim competence in the field of experience which is known: the human world.”