Beliefs sociologists
Cards (122)
- Functional religion creates social integration
- Sacred and profane
- 4 functions of religion: discipline, cohesion, vitalising and euphoric
- Totemism
- Religion providing cognitive thought
- Religion providing phycological function
- Durkheim only focuses on cohesion and doesn't explain conflict between communities
- Diversity has fragmented the collective conscience
- Religion is a superstructure
- Compares Christianity to socialism
- Religion and hegemony
- Orthodox Judaism and Catholicism forbid women from becoming priests
- Jewish women cannot touch holy books when menstruating
- women are subject to genital mutilation and stoning for sexual transgressions
- Female priesthood has existed for 6,000 years in the Middle East
- Women use religion to obtain status, freedom and respect
- Men have manipulated holy texts to give themselves more influence
- Buddhism doesn't differentiate between males and females in terms of power
- Calvinism study
- Thinks Calvinism study undermines economic factors
- Thinks Calvinism undermines technological causes
- Civil rights movement study
- Christian New Right study
- Disenchantment
- Technological worldview
- Structural differentiation
- Religion has been privatised
- Religious diversity
- Diversity actually fuels interest, like evangelicalism in Latin America
- Religion only survives when it performs a function
- Declining church attendance in America
- Secularisation from within
- Religious diversity in America
- Obligation to consumption
- People don't believe in Heaven or Hell, disproving private religion
- Vicarious religion
- Spiritual shopping
- Religion onlineand online religion
- Religion online is just supplementing, not substituting
- Online religion