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Religions Exam 1 Terminology

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Deciphering the inner logic of religious symbols & actions from the perspective of the believer.

-Reduces religion to something other than what believers claim.
-Trying to study religion by reducing its divine aspect and summing it up in the terms "religion is just..." and only using logical reasoning to explain religion

Ethnographic and holistic framework for understanding the beliefs, practices, and everyday experience of religious and spiritual persons in religious beliefs

- Integrated in everything (i.e. no separation of church and state)
- All encompassing
- No distinction between secular and religious

- Rejects modernism and wants to go back to "authentic" order manifested by ancestor.
- Not only wants to go back to traditions, but deists modern and broader trends and ideals