![]() ![]() ![]() Encounters with Catholicism In the 1660s Jesuit Rene Menard was in Upper Michigan and Jesuit Claude Allouez was in Wisconsin-others followed. Society requires both science (constructs of the mind) and religion (constructs of the heart) which are found in practices of people. In any culture core beliefs are preserved at all costs. This details a rational system governing life which challenged theorists that assumed primitive people would think in the same way. Witchcraft, Oracles, and Magic in 1937 the study of the Azande, who believe in Magic, and have the belief that certain parts of life may be controlled by supernatural forces. ![]() At Oxford his field experience led him to criticize earlier theories of religion and instead believe that to understand religion, one must understand culture, and to understand culture one must live in it. In 1939 he married, served in World War II and in 1944 he converts to Catholicism. He made trips to Africa in which he lived among the Azande (1926-1931) and Nuer (1930-1936) tribes. He was the son of Anglican priest, was educated in England, and was influenced by new age anthropology, especially Seligman and Malinowski both of whom encouraged him into field work. ![]()
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