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Jiang defines a central social problem as the need to organize the thinking of people inside a society and create a shared identity.
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Jiang defines a central social problem as the need to organize the thinking of people inside a society and create a shared identity.
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Jiang says the Yamnaya win because they adopt all the innovations: their religion, society, and economy align around collecting wealth, fighting wars, and expanding into new territories.
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The cave paintings visualize religion: mythology, a model of underlying reality, and a common memory and imagination shared by the group.
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Religion allows humans to communicate and be together in society; without religion humans could not think, communicate, imagine, or be fully human.
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Durkheim is used to define religion as the collective system of ideas through which people imagine society and construct a first representation of relations between things.
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Religion and society are mutually constitutive: without religion there is no society, and without society there is no religion.
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"...so we will do a quick theater today. Now, as a society, every society has a problem. The problem is, how do we organize..."
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"That's the first change. The second change is whereas the mother goddess gave us everything, right? Nature. The Sky Father gave us cows, cattle,..."
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"...innovations, then what happens is their religion becomes aligned with their society, which becomes aligned with their economy, okay? And so this is a..."
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"Okay? So back then we believed that for most of human history either we were egalitarian meaning like men and women were equal than..."
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"...they all share together. Okay? And this is what we call society. Does that make sense? So in other words okay the argument I'm..."
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"...religion is this a system of idea by which men imagine society of which they are members. Okay? And this is of understanding the..."
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"So the great service that religions have rendered to thought is to have constructed a first representation of the relations of kinship between things..."
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"...thought. Okay? So religion is our collective consciousness. It's what allows society to come into being. If collective thought alone had the power to..."
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Old Europe begins as a Mother Goddess world of agriculture, unity, women, peace, and art.
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