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Essentialism - ANSWER approach to defining that assumes an
enduring identity, core, substance, or essence lurks
deep within objects, making them what we say they
are.
Essentialism(2) - ANSWER Emphasis on religion as a private, intellectual
activity (religion = believing in this or that)
Edward Burnett Tylor (1832-1917): anthropologist - ANSWER A rudimentary definition of
religion seems best to fall back at once on this essential source...belief in Spiritual Beings"
Rudolf Otto (1869-1937) {The Holy} - ANSWER German Protestant theologian//The Idea of the
Holy (1917)//Religions identifies by feeling of awe and fascination in the presence of
mysterium tremendum // Essentialist approach: All religions are a response to "the holy" //
Text: "Religion Is an Experience of Awe and Mystery," // his view is similar to Schleiermacher's
and influenced by it
Paul Tillich (1886-1965) {Ultimate Concern} - ANSWER Early 20th-century theologian // Essence
of REL as "an
ultimate concern" // Left Germany upon Hitler‟s rise to power // Text: "Religion Is
an Expression of Ultimate
Concern", from The Dynamics of Faith // Essence of REL is
"ultimate concern" // Everyone has an ultimate concern and thus a "religion" or faith, but
not all faiths are equally valid
or true
, So, essentialists name something as religion - ANSWER if and only if it possesses a certain
quality or trait.
Plato (427-347 BCE): - ANSWER the Euthyphro—dialogue between Socrates (470-399 BCE) and
Euthyphro that looks to identify and discuss "piety" // piety" here is more like Greek
eusebia— signified
reverence, honor, and esteem, especially in social and legal
relationships.
Phenomenology - ANSWER the investigation of that which is observable (as distinct from
ontology or metaphysics)—limits itself to describing rather than explaining experience
"The Holy" - ANSWER Common usage of the term: "We have come to use the words „holy‟,
„sacred‟ in an entirely derivative sense, quite different from that which they originally bore" //
"We generally take holy‟ as meaning completely good‟
Otto calls this "creature-feeling" - ANSWER It is the emotion of a creature, submerged and
overwhelmed by its own nothingness in contrast to
that which is supreme above all creatures"
mysterium tremendom - ANSWER There‟s faith, salvation, trust, love, etc., but there‟s
something else (what we feel in solemn rites, atmosphere
of religious buildings/monuments
Animism - ANSWER belief systems of traditional peoples that appear to hold that
natural phenomena have spirits or souls"// coined by Tylor
numen (otto) - ANSWER This word stands in for the something extra Otto sees in
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