In todays lecture, I have learned the types and beliefs  of religion in society. After having never received any form of education at school on religion I feel that I have learned a lot more in detail about religious diversity and the positive and negative challenges and opportunities they offer. In the tutorial I feel I was beginning to learn how to prepare and form and essay with help from a group. This allows me to prepare essays plans that may possibly come up in the future. By completing the independent study task I was able research more on the anthropologist, ‘Bronislaw Malinowski’  and become more familiar with his beliefs in religion.

I understand the main concepts discussed today by following up reading on the functions of religion and gaining more useful knowledge on the anthropologist ‘M.F.C. Bourdillon’. I also understood the the types of religion as a social institution as I have previous knowledge of this however, after todays lecture I am now more fully aware of the cult which I never heard of before.  I also watched the jim jones video which helped my understanding and knowledge of religion in society.

I am struggling to understand the different functions of religion and the difference between the three anthropologists, I find this quite confusing. Furthermore, I will write the three anthropologists down and discuss their theories and compare them one by one which will develop my understanding better.

I feel what i have learned today relates a lot to myself as a student primary teacher. I must learn to expand my views and opinions on various religions and cultures to be able to adapt to children beliefs. I have also taken into account the positive and negative aspects religion has on the diversity as I feel this was extremely useful to myself as a student teacher to become cautious of these in a teaching environment.

16/01/2017