no

• functionalists Parsons and Malinowski - prevents social change by helping individuals cope with disruptive events that could threaten existing social order
• Marxists: religion helps preserve existing class structure by making a virtue out of poverty and suffering
• feminists believe that religion props up patriarchy by compensating women for the second class status
• islamic fundamentalists aim to take society back to a more religious era
• new christian right in america supports conservatine values like traditional family structures