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Requirements:
1- Each answer must have 250 words or more
2- You must read the article BEFORE answering. Do not copy anything from the internet. They must be YOUR Own Thoughts.
4- Do not cite too much. With one or two citations is enough. Note: Do not use outside resources besides the one that I give you. EACH ANSWER HAVE THEIR OWN book.
5- Read the articles.
6- critical thinking. Please
1- In what sense are primal religions primal?
Resource: Huston Smith: The world Religion “ the primal religion”
2- What is Pals’ reservation about explaining religion using an “aggressively reductionist functionalism”? Which theorists are supposed to fall under that description?
Resource Daniel l pals : eight theories of religion: Society as sacred: Emile Durkheim
3- Though Smith warns against romanticizing the primal religions, it is hard to see that he has avoided the tendency. Yes or no? What is it about primal religion that so much draws his admiration?
Resource: Huston Smith: The world Religion “ the primal religion”
4- Armstrong describes two versions of the Flood Myth – from the Artrahasis and the Gilgamesh. How do you explain the differences she describes? In particular, how would you describe the implicit contrast with the Flood Myth as it appears in Genesis?
Resource Karen Armstrong: A short history of myth “ the early civilization”
5- Importantly, Smith claims that Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are each “historical” religions, in a way that Hinduism and Buddhism are not. What does he have in mind by “historical” if the idea is supposed to distinguish the Eastern and Western Religious traditions?
Resource: Huston Smith: The world Religion “ judaism ”
6- Very often Christians will read backwards from Christianity to Judaism, and when they do that they usually light onto the idea of “Messiah”. How close is the Judaic idea of Messiah to the idea as it later is used by Christians? If there is more than one idea of ‘Messiah’ or ‘Messianic Ideal’ around, how are they distinguished from one another?
Resource: Huston Smith: The world Religion “ judaism ”
7- One idea of Judaism that regularly draws fire is the idea of a “chosen people”. Why is that such a hot-button? Smith is anxious to interpret that idea in a way that defuses it? How does he try to do that, and how successful would you say he is?
Resource: Huston Smith: The world Religion “ judaism ”
Explanation & Answer
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Philosophy
Thesis statement: Such religions were created or realized long ago before the advent of
reading and writing, the participants of those religions had no known ways of writing and
reading, and they entirely relied on their medieval forms of communication to pass down
their teachings from one member of the group to the others. Those kinds of religions were
passed down from one person to the other and from one generation to the other by the use of
oral means like the use of stories and tales.
1. In what sense are primal religions primal?
2. Pals reservation about explaining religion
3. Romanticizing the primal religion by Smith
4. Differences in flooding on earth
5. Differences between historical and medieval times
6. The idea of “chosen people.”
7. The ides of Judaism that drwas fire regularly
Running head: PHILOSOPHY ON PRIMAL RELIGIONS
Philosophy on Primal Religions
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PHILOSOPHY ON PRIMAL RELIGIONS
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In what sense are primal religions primal?
Smith (2019) explains that some religions are considered as being primal. This is so
because they were among those that were the traditions of the non-educated individuals and they
entirely did not depend on scriptures or other written teachings as today's religions do. Such
religions were created or realized long-ago before the advent of reading and writing. The
participants of those religions had not known ways of writing and reading, and they entirely
relied on their medieval forms of communication to pass down their teachings from one member
of the group to the others. Those kinds of religions were passed down from one person to the
other and from one generation to the other by the use of oral means like the use of stories and
tales.
Primal religions may be considered primal since they were of prime importance to the
medieval tribes and the religions that existed back then just like the way in which Christianity
and Islam is considered one of the greatest religions of the 21st century. These primal religions
had the same significance in their time and the people held the same opinions about them and
their doctrines just like Christians and Muslims hold a very vital significance when it comes to
Christianity and Islam. Needless to say, that these religions might in a way be considered primal
because they formed the basis of the religions that exist today. Some religions of the 21st century
borrowed a lot of doctrines and teachings from the primal religions, an example being like
Buddhism and the symbols of worship that are used in it
Pals reservation about explaining religion
Pals is holding back from describing religion by the use of a reductionist ...
