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Religion

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system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things, which is defined by three elements, beliefs, practices and moral community

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beliefs

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some things are sacred, forbidden, set off from the profane

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Sacred

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Durkheim’s term for things set apart or forbidden, that inspire fear, awe, reverence, or deep respect

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Profane

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Durkheim’s term for common elements of everyday life

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Rituals

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ceremonies or repetitive practices such as kneeling, praying, bowing, crossing oneself, singing, lightening candles to help unite people into a moral community

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moral community

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a community based on a common moral belief

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religious experience

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a sudden awareness of the supernatural or a feeling of coming in contact with God

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Function of religion

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meaning of life, emotional support, social solidarity, everyday life guideline, social control, adaptation, support for the govt and social change

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Dysfunction of religion

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war and religious persecution

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State religion

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a govt sponsored religion

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Civil Religion

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rober belch’s term for religion that is such an established feature of a country’s life the its history and social institutions become sanctified by being associated with God

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Boran Again

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a description of a life-transforming religious experience that people feel they have become new persons

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Modernization

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transformation of traditional societies into industrial societies

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State of Capitalism

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Weber’s term for the desire to accumulate capital as duty– not to spend it, but as an end in itself and to constantly reinvest it

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Protestant Ethic

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Weber’s term to describe the ideal of a self-denying, highly moral life, accompanied by hard work and frugality

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Fundamentalism

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the belief that true religion is threatened by modernism and that the faith as it was originally practiced should be restored

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Religious Symbols

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items used to provide identity and social solidarity for their members in a given religious belief

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Cults

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a new religion with few followers, whose teachings put it at odds with the dominant culture and religion

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Sects

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a group larger than a cult that still feels substantially hostility from and toward society

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Church

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a moral community of believers or a type of religious organization, one of the three elements of a religion

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Ecclesia

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also called state religion, a religious group so integrated into the dominant culture the it is difficult to tell where the one beings and the other leaves off

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Evangelism

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attempt to win covetts

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Charismas

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more commonly referring to an outstanding, magnetic, personality, literally an extraordinary gift from God.

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Denomination

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brand name within a major religion, for example, Methodist or Baptist

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Community

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bond with one another or a shared meaning that comes through symbols, rituals and beliefs, they unite people

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Rise of Calvinism

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it brought the key to modernization, which came from the idea of the afterlife. The Protestant religion lead to capitalism

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Judaism

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Abraham, Monotheistic- one God, Three branches– Orthodox, Reform and conservation

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Christianity

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Developed from Judaism, most popular in the world. Directed from Rome. Mono.

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Polytheism

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more than one god

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Animism

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all objects in the world have spirits

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Anti-Semithism

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prejudice, discrimination and persecution

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Islam

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Muhammad, Muslims, make the pilgrimage to Mecca during one’s lifetime. Practice polygyny. God is king or Theocracy govt

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Hinduism

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no founder, chief religion of India, Polytheistic, reincarnation- life death and rebirth

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Buddhism

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Gautama founded, everything is temporary is there is no soul. Four Nobel Truths

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Confucianism

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maintain concern for other humans. It was atheistic- no reference to the supernatural

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Secularization of Religion and Culture

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worldly affairs replace spiritual interests. Religion has become less important. Culture has gone down but personal level has gone up

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