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==Syncretic Terms==


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== Notes ==
== Notes ==
'''Peter Berger''' distinguishes between "paramount reality," which is the<blockquote>"One would begin with an understanding of the ordinary everyday "life-world," the taken-for-granted world of commonsense which Schutz aptly called the "paramount reality." This is the reality that we apprehend when we are "wide awake," when we go about our various mundane project (Schutz also called this the .. world of working"), and which we presuppose a the common context of almost a1J social interaction. This is the reality that we massively bare with our fellowmen, and which therefore is the most massively plausible to ourselves: Almost everyone around us, almost all the time, confirm and reconfirms the basic contours of this reality. It is thus a domain of familiarity and of safety-indeed it is the principal domain of reliability in our experience."<ref>Berger, Peter L. “Some Second Thoughts on Substantive versus Functional Definitions of Religion.” ''Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion'' 13, no. 2 (June 1, 1974): 125–33. <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.2307/1384374</nowiki>. p. 129.</ref></blockquote>
'''Peter Berger''' distinguishes between "paramount reality," which is the
 
<blockquote>"One would begin with an understanding of the ordinary everyday "life-world," the taken-for-granted world of commonsense which Schutz aptly called the "paramount reality." This is the reality that we apprehend when we are "wide awake," when we go about our various mundane project (Schutz also called this the .. world of working"), and which we presuppose as the common context of almost a1J social interaction. This is the reality that we massively bare with our fellowmen, and which therefore is the most massively plausible to ourselves: Almost everyone around us, almost all the time, confirms and reconfirms the basic contours of this reality. It is thus a domain of familiarity and of safety-indeed it is the principal domain of reliability in our experience."<ref>Berger, Peter L. “Some Second Thoughts on Substantive versus Functional Definitions of Religion.” ''Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion'' 13, no. 2 (June 1, 1974): 125–33. <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.2307/1384374</nowiki>. p. 129.</ref></blockquote>
 
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Syncretic Terms

Normal Consciousness > Dullness, Ordinary Consciousness, Paramount Reality, Usual Consciousness


Notes

Peter Berger distinguishes between "paramount reality," which is the

"One would begin with an understanding of the ordinary everyday "life-world," the taken-for-granted world of commonsense which Schutz aptly called the "paramount reality." This is the reality that we apprehend when we are "wide awake," when we go about our various mundane project (Schutz also called this the .. world of working"), and which we presuppose as the common context of almost a1J social interaction. This is the reality that we massively bare with our fellowmen, and which therefore is the most massively plausible to ourselves: Almost everyone around us, almost all the time, confirms and reconfirms the basic contours of this reality. It is thus a domain of familiarity and of safety-indeed it is the principal domain of reliability in our experience."[1]

Footnotes

  1. Berger, Peter L. “Some Second Thoughts on Substantive versus Functional Definitions of Religion.” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 13, no. 2 (June 1, 1974): 125–33. https://doi.org/10.2307/1384374. p. 129.