BELIEFS ALL THEORISTS !!!!! Flashcards

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Armstrong

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Religion holds patriarchal views creating a glass stained ceiling

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Durkheim

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Sacred/Profane
Totenism
Collective consciousness

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Marx

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Opium of the masses
Legitimised inequality
Legitimises ruling class power

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Lenin

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Spiritual gin keeps WC in a mystical fog to obscure reality

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Abercrombie

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Religion doesn’t necessarily serve to control the population

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Bloch

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Dual nature of religion

Conservative force
Social change - Offers principles of hope

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Gramsci

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Churches reinforce cultural hegemony that benefits R/C

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De Beauvoir

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Women are tricked into thinking they are equal to men in the eyes of God

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El Saadawi

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Argues religion isn’t intrinsically patriarchal but society made it

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Woodhead

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Women use religion to gain greater freedom and respect

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Rinaldo

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Piety movements - conservative movements that support traditional women’s roles empowers women

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Lyotard

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Meta narratives, monopoly of the truth

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Hervieu-Leger

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Spiritual shopping, Cultural Amnesia

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Lyon

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Religion disemembedded from society

Jesus in Disneyland

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15
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Helland

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Religion online

Online religion

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Berger

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Universe of meaning

Sacred canopy

Religious diversity

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Weber

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Rationalisation

Calvinism

Theodicy of disprivledge

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Bruce

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Cultural defence\transition

Religion/ social protest :

Taking the moral high ground

Channeling dissent

Mobilising public opinion

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Herberg

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Secularisation from within - change of purpose of religion from salvation to seeking personal improvement

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Woodhead + Heelas

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Explanations of secularisation:

Disappearance thesis

Differentiation thesis

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Parsons (secularisation)

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Structural differnatiation society can now provide functions that religion did

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Weber

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Rationalisation

Enchantment = Disenchantment

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23
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Bruce (secularisation)

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Technological worldview

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Davie

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Believing without belonging

Vicarious religion

Spiritual health service

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Lyon (against secularisation)

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Re enchantment Of the world = growth in unconventional beliefs

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Stark and Bainbridge

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Religious market theory

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Noris + Inglehart

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Existential security theory

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28
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Gill and Lundegaarde

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More state spends on welfare = Less religion participation

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Fundamentalism Features/ Characteristics

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Us and them mentality

Literalism

Aggressive Reactions

Patriarchal

Modern tech used to recruit/ spread message

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30
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Davie Fundamentalism

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Fundamentalism is a product of modernity

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31
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Giddens

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Globalisation undermines traditional views, New cosmopolitanism

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Castells Responses to fundamentalism

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Resistance Identity - Feel Threatened and turn to fundamentalism

Project Identity - Reponse to Forward Thinking

33
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Nanda

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Globalisation and Exonomic growth in India Causes Ultra nationalism similar to Civil religion

34
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Berger (Globalisation)

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Pentecostalism in South America

35
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Troeltsch

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Churches are large organisations with millions of followers, monopoly of truth

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Niebuhr

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Denominations lie between churches and sects and are less exclusive have little restrictions. Don’t claim monopoly of the truth

Eg. Methodist Church

Pentecostalism

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Wallis (How Organisations see themselves)

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How they see themselves

Sects and churches similar

Claim monopoly of the truth

Denominations and cults similar

Don’t claim monopoly

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Wallis - Main

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NRM types

World rejecting
World accommodating
World accepting

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Stark and Bainbridge (Cults)

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Client Cults

Audience Cults

Cultic Movements

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Reasons for growth in NRM

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Troelsch - Marginality come from MD/Oppresion

Weber - Theodicy of Disprivledge

Wallis - Relative Deprivation (MC lack spirituality)

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Bruce (Social change)

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Rapid Social Change causes Anomie, People turn to NRMs

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Niebuhr (Sects)

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Why sects are short lived

The second generation

Death of Leader

Protestant Ethic Effect

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Stark + Bainbridge (cycle)

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Sectarian Cycle

Initial schism

Initial fervour

Denominationalsim

Establishment

Further schism

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Wilson (Sect World views)

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Adventist- waiting for second coming of Christ. E.G. Jehovah’s Witnesses
7th day Adventist’s

Conversionist - turn to covert masses to their sect = Grow to denomination E.g
Evangelicals

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Heelas (NAM characteristics)

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Self Spirituality

Detradionalalization

46
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Bauman

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NAMs offer individuals meaning

47
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Reasons for NAM growth

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Identity Crisis

Rapid Social change

Consumerism

48
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Clemence ( Class and Religiosity)

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Those with higher economic status less likely to participate in religion

the traditional view is that More W/C use religon (Theodicy of dispriveldge Weber) Howvee evidence shows more m/c are religious

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Miller + Hoffman (Religiosity and Gender)

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3 Reasons for Women being more religious :

Gender differences in risk taking

Women are socialised to be obedient and passive

Women’s gender roles more likely to be part time workers

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Glock + Stark (Deprivation)

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Three types of deprivation that encourages women to join religion

Organismic
Ethical
Social

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Brierely ( Ethincity and Religiosity)

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Black people 2x more likely to go to church than white

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Modood

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Found decline in the importance for all religious groups, especially in the second generation

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Bird (Ethnicity and Religiosity)

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5 Reasons why Ethnic minorities are more likely to take part in religion

Come from countries with high levels of religion

Provides a sense of community

A way of maintaining Cultural identity

Religion may be a way of dealing with oppression

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Voas + Crockett ( Age and Religiosity)

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Ageing Effect

Generational Effect

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Why younger people are less likely to be religious

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Religion is unattractive/ boring
Religion is more competitive
See other role models or hero’s

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Arweck and Beckford (Age and Religiosity)

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The virtual collapse of religious socialisation

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Popper (Science as an open belief system)

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Science is based upon falsification therefor can be disproven

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Kuhn (Science as a closed system)

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Science is a closed system as it runs of paradigms.

Dr Velinkovsky

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Merton (Why science is becoming more popular)

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CUDOS norms

Communism
Universalism
Dintrestestness
Organised Sceptism

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Religion as a closed system

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Religion claims to have the absolute truth and nothing can challenge it

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Pritchard

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Azande Tribe their belief in witchcraft causing misfortune isn’t questioned.

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Horton (Religion as a closed system)

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Religions claim monopoly of the truth

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Herberg (Religion as a open system)

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Religion can be seen as open systems due to being able to change

Acceptance of Female Bishops in the Church of England.

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Polanyi (Self sustaining Beliefs)

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Religion has 3 Tendancies to defend their closed system

Denial of Legitmacy

Subsidiary Explanations

Circulatory

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Gramsci (Ideology)

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WC develop ideas that go against the hegemony, and realise they have become exploited and have a Dual consciousness and become named “Organic Intellectuals”

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Abercrombie (Ideology)

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Economic Factors stop workers from Rebeling.

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Anderson (Ideology)

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A nation is an “imagined community”
We all identify with but don’t know the members.

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Gellner (Ideology

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Nationalism is a feature of modern society Becasue idustrialisation creates large scale impersonal societies.

Contrasting to those of the pre-industrial societies.

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Manheim (Ideology)

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Worldviews are a products of intellectuals who cannot relate to the individual.

Ideological thought - Keep things the same

Utopian thought - Jusitfies social change.

Argues we need to create an objective worldview and to review society you need to detach yourself from priveledge or position named this “Free floating Inteligensia”

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Feminism (Ideology)

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Ideologies blocks women from positions of power, and are responsible for the inequalities in society.

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Oakley (Ideolgy)

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Material Depriavtion is a good example as science as an ideology, as it justifies the gender inequality by stating development of children was damaged by working mothers.

And strengthen the ideolgy of men being breadwinners.

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Marks (Ideology)

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19Th Century male doctors stated teaching females would create a “new race of puny unfeminie women”

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Women (Ideology)

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Women aren’t always subordinated by religion and example would be by Matriarchal religions such as Hinduism who worship goddesses as the creators of the universe.