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[alexseanchai]

Skirophorion 16

Played through first two lectures for REL 210 Religion in the United States earlier today. I kinda wanna turn Dr. K (as a religious studies scholar) loose on modern polytheism. She's saying how words like "Christianity" are functionally useless without time and place markers. "Christianity in early 1690s Salem, Massachusetts" has significant meaning that "Christianity" lacks. I was going somewhere with this but I keep having to reboot my phone and it breaks my train of thought.

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[alatefeline]

Hmmm...I think it constitutes an interesting point just as it stands.

[alexseanchai]

It does, yes. Christianity in 1690s Salem, MA is v different from Christianity in 1860s Jackson, MS, or Christianity in 2010s Charleston, SC. But I had somewhere I was going that was going to connect up with the "modern polytheism" remark and I forgot it because my phone is butts.

[alatefeline]

Well, good luck fishing for that insight or a similar thought. I try to have faith that if it is important and meaningful, it will eventually swim back into view if you hang out in a related flow of ideas.

[alexseanchai]

Nod nod! Thanks.

[silveradept]

Lecturer is bang on about the necessity of context, especially for Christianity, which means entirely different things to different people.

I probably should have been a religious studies scholar, had the program not closed for renovations the first year I was there. I ended up being a medievalist and then a librarian instead, which is almost as good.

[alexseanchai]

Nod nod nod.