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I want the question paper of ESO-15 Society & Religion of B.A Sociology of Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) so can you provide me?

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I am providing you the question paper of ESO-15 Society & Religion of B.A Sociology of Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU)

IGNOU BA ESO-15 Society & Religion question paper

Maximum Marks - 100

Weightage - 30%

Answer all the questions.

Answer all the questions.

SECTIONI

Answer the following questions.


Q. 1. Explain the intellectualist theories of religion.

Ans. Intellectualist Theories of Religion: In the beginning, ideas about the
origin and development of Religion were based

on the reports of missionaries and adventures about the nature of Religion
among the primitives. De Brosses (1760), advanced

a theory that Religion originated from fetishism i.e. belief in Magical fetishes
or objects. The Portugese sailors had reported that

the coastal Negro tribes of West Africa worshipped inanimate things and
animals. Comte on the basis of this theory held that in

due courses Fetishism was replaced by Polytheism. This theory was
superseded by the Ghost theory and the Soul theory. These

latter theories are given the name Intellectualist theories of Religion. The
reason is both assume that the primitives are rational

being, although their efforts to explain natural phenomena are crude.

(1) The Nature-Myth School: Nature-Myth school was a German School,
dealing with Indo-European Religions.

According to it, ancient Gods were universally personifications of natural
phenomena. Max Muller, a German linguist,

propounded this theory. In his opinion grand natural objects gave people a
feeling of the infinite as well as acted as

symbols of the infinite. The people thought of celestial bodies, such as, moon,
stars, dawn and their attributes in terms

of metaphor and symbol.

With the passage of time, the symbolic representations came to have an
independent identity and became separated

from that which they represented. The attributes or the symbols became
personified as deities. The human beings

and nature stand in a relationship of awe, wonder and terror etc. Early human
beings were unable to understand or

explain the world of nature. They ended up worshipping it out of fear and
awe. According to Muller, the Religion of

early man can be studied by looking into linguistic Etymological meaning of
the name of Gods and legends associated

with them. Max Mullers contemporaries, Herbert Spencer, Edward Tylor and
Andrew Lang were the main critics of

nature-myth theories. They criticised the Philological and Etymological
approach to Religion.

(2) The Ghost Theory: Unlike Max Muller, Herbert Spencer and Edward Tylor
focused their attention on

Religious behaviour of the primitives. In their opinion, primitive societies
offered an evidence of the earliest forms of

Religion. Spencer published his views in 1882, eleven years after Tylor had
published his book Primitive Culture in

1871.

In his book, The Principles of Sociology, Spencer (1876-96) discusses
primitive beliefs. He shows that the


primitives were rational though with a limited quantum of knowledge. They
made reasonable, though weak, inferences

with regard to natural phenomena. They observed sun, moon, clouds and
stars come and go, and got the notion of

visible and invisible conditions. Likewise, they get the idea of a persons
duality from dreams. The dreams are real

life-experiences by the primitives. The dream-self moves about at night while
the shadow-self acts by the day. Sleep


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