Topic > Impact of Religious Pluralism - 2221

The sociologist Levy-Bruhl, although he did not do so directly, commented that they did not like reasoning and did not adopt logic (Levy-Bruhl 1923). In an attempt to understand something they could not visualize or explain, they classified it as witchcraft (Levy-Bruhl 1923). For those who used the lens of reclaimed ethnography to study Native Americans, they were primitive because they were not industrialized. These thoughts put them at a disadvantage; they were seen as a relic of a pre-modern society, but were said to have a beautiful history that needed to be remembered. Despite having real natives in America, they were presented as little dolls in the context of a natural history museum (Capriccioso 2009); these misrepresentations were deeply embodied in society, the perceived primitiveness placed limits on their religious status; and there is a lack of representation of "primitives" in the World Parliament of Religions (Burris