05 May '06 09:51>1 edit
Anthropologists long thought totemisim to be the first religion/cult. The anthropologist Claude levi-Strauss called this an anthropological mirage and stated that totemism was humanitites way of categorising plants and animals and how man/woman interacts with them and how cultural objects coexist with natural ones.
So.....'if' this hypothesis is true ? Can we extend it to religion and cite religion in the same terms as Levi-Strauss's conception of totemisim? Is religion humanities way of classification, is it a way of understanding how we interconnect with animals , plants the world, the universe, life, death and so on? or as Ninian Smart states, religion is a 'worldview'.
Thoughts ?
So.....'if' this hypothesis is true ? Can we extend it to religion and cite religion in the same terms as Levi-Strauss's conception of totemisim? Is religion humanities way of classification, is it a way of understanding how we interconnect with animals , plants the world, the universe, life, death and so on? or as Ninian Smart states, religion is a 'worldview'.
Thoughts ?