Title:	Film as Religion Myths, Morals, and Rituals
Authors:	C. Lyden, John John C. Lyden
Keywords:	morals,
Issue Date:	2003
Publisher:	New York University
Description:	In this book I take a different approach. It is my contention that there is no absolute distinction between religion and other aspects of culture, and that we have a tendency to label certain sorts of activities as “religious” chiefly because they fall into the patterns that we recognize from religions with which we are familiar. As a result, we have a tendency to limit what we view as religion to that which is recognized as such by us in our own culture. The result is that we can find ourselves shortsighted when we encounter a diverse form of religion—as, for example, the European colonists who came to America did. For a long time, they refused to even grant the name “religion” to the activities in Native American culture that paralleled those undertaken by Europeans under that name. In time, they came to see that the “otherness” of American beliefs did not disqualify them from performing the same functions for Native Americans that Christianity did for most Europeans, and therefore these beliefs might be considered equally “religious.” Perhaps they feared to give such practices the label of “religion” because doing so might require an acknowledge ment that these practices are as valid or true as their own. In fact, it merely required them to acknowledge that they exist
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/73636
ISBN:	0-8147-5180-6
Appears in Collections:	History

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