module 6

• Religion


  A particular system of faith and worship. A pursuit of interest to which someone as supreme importance.
• Secularization Theory


  From the perspective of sociologists, as societies become more modern, the need for and power of religion begins to decline.
• Huntington


  The Clash of Civilizations is a thesis of??
• The Clash of Civilizations


  Is the assumption that the post-Cold War world would regroup into regional alliances based on religious beliefs and historical attachments to various “civilizations.”
• three prominent

  Western Christianity (Roman Catholicism and Protestantism)

  Orthodox Christianity (Russian and Greek)

  Islam, with additional influences from Hinduism and Confucianism
• Religions

  Christianity

  Islam

  Hinduism

  Buddhism

  Taoism

  Shinto

  Judaism

  Sikhism
• Christianity

  Latin Cross
• Islam

  Crescent and star
• Hinduism

  Aum letter
• Buddhism

  Dharmachakra
• Taoism

  Yin and yang
• Shinto

  Torii gate
• Judaism

  Star of David
• Sikhism

  Khanda
• Christian evangelicalism as a leading carrier of modernization: its emphasis on the Bible is thought to encourage literacy, while involvement in church activities can teach administrative skills that are applicable to work environments.
• Huntington’s “clash of civilizations” thesis assumes that the major East Asian societies constitute an alliance of “Confucian” cultures that share a common heritage in the teachings of Confucius, the ancient Chinese sage.
• State-imposed restrictions on family size, late childbearing, and resistance to marriage among highly educated, working women have undermined the basic tenets of the Confucian family in Asia.
• conjugal family


  centring on the emotional bond between wife and husband
• patriarchal joint family


  focused on the support of aged parents and grandparents
• neolocal residence


  married couples now expect to reside in their own home
• patrilocal residence


  the house or compound of the groom’s parents