Religion as an ideology

• Azande people:

  . Studied by Pritchard

  . Had a closed belief system as they claimed things where witchcraft

  . Infalifisibale and fundementalist
• Polanyis maintenance of believe:

  • Circularity= self-serving logic reinforces validity
  • Subsidiary explanations= denial of things that contradict views and alternate explanations
  • Denial of legitimacy= rejecting alternate belief systems by claiming de-legitimacy
• Polanyi= science can be equally closed due to funding and paradigms