Religion means "ideology."
Culture means "folkways."
A religion is any complex of ideas, especially if codified by a definitive text (scripture). Examples include Marxism, Freudianism, movement conservatism, etc.
Religions are translatable and viral; they desire to spread.
Culture means "folkways."
A religion is any complex of ideas, especially if codified by a definitive text (scripture). Examples include Marxism, Freudianism, movement conservatism, etc.
Religions are translatable and viral; they desire to spread.
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Culture means "folkways." It is particularly bound up with language: cultures develop because language barriers isolate groups. A common language tends to create a common culture, and cultures die when the language that sustains them dies.
Culture is not truly translatable.
Culture is not truly translatable.
Like religions & definitive texts (scripture), cultures often codify themselves around a literary canon.
Cervantes' Spanish
Dante's Italian
Shakespeare's English
Mickiewicz's Polish
Pushkin's Russian
Goethe's German
The true genius of Zionism was not Herzl, but Ben-Yehuda.
Cervantes' Spanish
Dante's Italian
Shakespeare's English
Mickiewicz's Polish
Pushkin's Russian
Goethe's German
The true genius of Zionism was not Herzl, but Ben-Yehuda.
A single culture can accommodate multiple religions (though this is often a fault line).
A single religion can span many cultures (again, this easily becomes a fault line).
Religion may influence culture and vice versa.
A single religion can span many cultures (again, this easily becomes a fault line).
Religion may influence culture and vice versa.
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