Self and Other
I. Life after death poses a spatial dilemma
A. Death makes biological life possible
B. Immortality in genes or individual soul?
II. An “Other” Place
A. Use familiar to understand unfamiliar
B. Unknown constrained by what we know
1. Ex. Lividity & Winged
Creatures
2. Ex. Pawnee Sky Chart
C. Images reflect society and psychology
D. Social scientific study of religion
1. Comte - sociology as a substitute
2. Wallace - evol. future of
extinction
III. Emile Durkheim
A. Fashioning Gods in Our Own Image
B. People worship their own society
C. Aspirations toward good, beautiful & ideal
D. Religious origin of scientific thought
E. Science as superior alternative to religion
IV. Sigmund Freud
A. Future of an Illusion
B. Infantile Prototype
C. Totem and Taboo
D. Oedipus & religious origins
V. Putting theories to the test
A. Tucson, Arizona
B. Images of Jesus
C. Images of Death