A "primary religion" evolves over centuries & is intertwined with culture, society & language.
A "secondary counter religion" uses elements from the primary religion but has a founding event with claims of being exclusively & universally true while all competing faiths are false. It looks down upon its parent primary religion.
Originally proposed as a bucket where religions are force-fitted, a spectrum makes more sense.
Ref: German Egyptologist Jan Assman's "The price of Monotheism"
https://twitter.com/vjgtweets/status/1317143358867869697
No comments:
Post a Comment