Religion Flashcards
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Sociological Perspective
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- look at importance of religion in social situations
- trends in membership of various religious denominations
- decline of Canadian parents of school age kids that say that their families are religious
- growth of non christian faiths
- strategies used to attract and attain members
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Structural Functionalism
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- religion meets societal needs
- Durkheim: the Gods that people worship are socially created
- set of shared beliefs = collective functions
- integrates people into society, creates unity, solidarity
- worried about industrial society and religion shifted away from morality
- moving to organic solidarity: more secularism
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Conflict Theory
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- religion source of false consciousness for working class
- religion is something that people create
- argue that religion is problematic and distracts workers
- religious leaders often very economic elites
- can provide certain status to economically deprived
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Symbolic Interactionism
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- Max Weber: Protestantism (Calvinism) allowed capitalism to flourish
- looks at how religion shapes society and economic structures
- capitalism took off because of religious beliefs
- emphasized being frugal and investing
- few were chosen by God for salvation (signs show this)
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Feminist Theory
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Emphasize gender and the ways religion might subordinate women and/or empower women
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Stark and Glock: Dimensions of religiosity
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- beliefs
- practices
- experience
- knowledge
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Secularization Thesis
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- societies progress, particularly through modernization and rationalization, religion loses its authority
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Persistence Thesis
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- religion and religious practice persists in being important to people
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Polarization
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- social groups split on opposing views
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Church-Sect Typology
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- smaller groups that broke away from main religious groups
- some sects really grew: methodists and salvation army
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Personal Centred Explanations
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- reflection
- socialization
- deprivation
