Religion

Question 1

Religion vs Spirituality

Answer 1

• An external, collective moral order
• An Internal, individual belief

Question 2

Secularization?

Answer 2

• The process in which religion has less and less influence on a society

Question 3

Faith

Answer 3

• Belief based on conviction rather than scientific/logical evidence

Question 4

Science vs religion

Answer 4

• Provide empirical evidence of reality
• Provides:
  + Ethics
  + Belongings
  + Purpose and meanings

Question 5

Substantive vs Functional

Answer 5

• What religion is, exclusive, focus on content
• What religion does, inclusive, focus on consequences

Question 6

Western vs Eastern religion

Answer 6

• One god, exclusive, holds a monopoly on truth, each has a holy book
• Inclusive, more suggestive.

Question 7

The ideological, intellectual, and ritualistic

Answer 7

• The context and scope of belief expected by the group (to its members)
• The Knowledge of the basic tenets of a group’s beliefs and scriptures
• The practice of worship, prayers

Question 8

The experiential, consequential

Answer 8

• The feeling of being in contact with the divine
• The effect of religious beliefs on a person’s behaviors in daily life

Question 9

Collective religiosity

Answer 9

• The collective commitment of a group to a religion

Question 10

Church vs sect and denomination

Answer 10

• An established group adheres to the social order
• A radical group in tension with the social order
• An in-between of a church and a sect

Question 11

Cult and mysticism

Answer 11

• The introduction of an entirely new system of beliefs
• Belief based on non-irrational personal experience

Question 12

Marx vs religion

Answer 12

• Anti-religion, opium of the people
• Religion oppressed people and through religion, people can be influence

Question 13

Durkheim on religion

Answer 13

• Religion is the collective conscience of the people
• The sacred: what is desired and respected
• The profane: everything else

Question 14

Durkheim and the pros of religion

Answer 14

• Provide a sense of purpose
• Social cohesion and belongings
• Provides morality and social control

Question 15

Weber on routinization of charisma

Answer 15

• How a charismatic authority being replaced by a bureaucratic one and legitimizing itself in society

Question 16

Weber and modernization

Answer 16

• The disenchantment of the world
• Pursue rationalism and intellectualism
• Devaluing religion and exterminating superstition in the modern world.