BELIEFS ALL THEORISTS !!!!! Flashcards
Armstrong
Religion holds patriarchal views creating a glass stained ceiling
Durkheim
Sacred/Profane
Totenism
Collective consciousness
Marx
Opium of the masses
Legitimised inequality
Legitimises ruling class power
Lenin
Spiritual gin keeps WC in a mystical fog to obscure reality
Abercrombie
Religion doesn’t necessarily serve to control the population
Bloch
Dual nature of religion
Conservative force
Social change - Offers principles of hope
Gramsci
Churches reinforce cultural hegemony that benefits R/C
De Beauvoir
Women are tricked into thinking they are equal to men in the eyes of God
El Saadawi
Argues religion isn’t intrinsically patriarchal but society made it
Woodhead
Women use religion to gain greater freedom and respect
Rinaldo
Piety movements - conservative movements that support traditional women’s roles empowers women
Lyotard
Meta narratives, monopoly of the truth
Hervieu-Leger
Spiritual shopping, Cultural Amnesia
Lyon
Religion disemembedded from society
Jesus in Disneyland
Helland
Religion online
Online religion
Berger
Universe of meaning
Sacred canopy
Religious diversity
Weber
Rationalisation
Calvinism
Theodicy of disprivledge
Bruce
Cultural defence\transition
Religion/ social protest :
Taking the moral high ground
Channeling dissent
Mobilising public opinion
Herberg
Secularisation from within - change of purpose of religion from salvation to seeking personal improvement
Woodhead + Heelas
Explanations of secularisation:
Disappearance thesis
Differentiation thesis
Parsons (secularisation)
Structural differnatiation society can now provide functions that religion did
Weber
Rationalisation
Enchantment = Disenchantment
Bruce (secularisation)
Technological worldview
Davie
Believing without belonging
Vicarious religion
Spiritual health service
Lyon (against secularisation)
Re enchantment Of the world = growth in unconventional beliefs
Stark and Bainbridge
Religious market theory
Noris + Inglehart
Existential security theory
Gill and Lundegaarde
More state spends on welfare = Less religion participation
Fundamentalism Features/ Characteristics
Us and them mentality
Literalism
Aggressive Reactions
Patriarchal
Modern tech used to recruit/ spread message
Davie Fundamentalism
Fundamentalism is a product of modernity