Peter Berger
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- Created on: 04-06-15 13:25
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- Peter Berger
- Sacred Canopy
- sociology of religion
- Humans fashion the world by their own activity
- Socially constructed ordering of experience
- This is called the 'Nomos'
- Socially constructed ordering of experience
- The Nomos is made up off..
- Externalising
- Humans have a weak instinct so are forced to chose how to behave
- Humans develop ideas and make choices on how to behave
- We are at risk of becoming 'out of balance' when there is change
- Objectivation
- create a stable picture of the world
- Develop and impose order on the world
- Made applicable to all people
- Away to keep out of "..terror that would otherwise engulf us if we didn't have this order"
- Socialisation
- How to act accordingly
- society tells us what to do
- Our role in life
- Internalisation
- Everyone must accept principles, societies view on the world and how we should live it
- "...Nomos is our shield against terror"
- Externalising
- Anomy
- Without nomos
- Worst thing for society
- To avoid this society makes nomos as strong as possible
- Societies adopt religious principles to underpin their nomos
- Religion
- Solution for when things go wrong
- Gives meaning to dreams and visions
- Learn how to behave by following rituals to remind us the true way of life
- gives meaningful order and peace to the cosmos (universe)
- Based on claims of absolute and universal truths
- Religion
- Societies adopt religious principles to underpin their nomos
- Without nomos
- Sacred Canopy
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