iv. Animals also function in place of people v. It's important to use an ox, a castrated male, rather than a bull 1. An ox is symbolic of being a full Nuer male 2. the castration of the ox symbolizes being a socialized moral male 3. Uninitiated males are called"bull boys vi. Almost every ox is destined for sacrifice it is thought that an ox will be angry if it is not sacrificed vii. Every male can, and is expected to, make a sacrifice-very egalitarian 6. EP and Nuer Religion a. EPs book on Nuer religion reflects heavily on what was going on in EPs own spiritual life EP had converted to Catholicism. like a number of Oxford professors l1. Part of a very intellectual form of Catholicism b. The book was an attempt to show the existence of religion in the absence of a church or organizing body Radcliffe-Brown saw religion as some kind of support for society 1. saw religion as a kind of failure of thought, moving away from science 2. Other 20 century British anthropologists analyzed religion in terms of its functioniv. Animals also function in place of people v. It’s important to use an ox, a castrated male, rather than a bull 1. An ox is symbolic of being a full Nuer male 2. the castration of the ox symbolizes being a socialized, moral male 3. Uninitiated males are called “bull boys” vi. Almost every ox is destined for sacrifice 1. it is thought that an ox will be angry if it is not sacrificed vii. Every male can, and is expected to, make a sacrifice – very egalitarian 6. EP and Nuer Religion a. EP’s book on Nuer religion reflects heavily on what was going on in EP’s own spiritual life i. EP had converted to Catholicism, like a number of Oxford professors ii. Part of a very intellectual form of Catholicism b. The book was an attempt to show the existence of religion in the absence of a church or organizing body i. Radcliffe-Brown saw religion as some kind of support for society 1. saw religion as a kind of failure of thought, moving away from science 2. Other 20th century British anthropologists analyzed religion in terms of its function