Religion and social change Flashcards
Who are the functionalist theorists that came up with the theory of religion and consensus?
Malinowski and Parsons
What is the theory of religion and consensus?
Religion helps individuals and society cope with disruptive events that might threaten the existing social order.
What is Marx’s argument to say religion prevents social change?
Religion justifies the existing, unequal social order and make a virtue out of poverty and suffering.
What Marxist argues that religion has a dual character?
Bloch
What is the dual character of religion?
Bloch says its utopic to deceive people with a promise of rewards in heaven but also makes people notice what they want changed in this world.
What Neo-Marxist argues that religion prevents change
Maduro
What did the Neo-Marxist Maduro say about the religion preventing social change
The Catholic Church in Latin America supports the existing economic and political elites.
Bruce’s take on why the Civil Rights Movement caused social change.
Church is an ‘honest broker’, mobilises public opinion, promote campaigns, and had a consensus with all social classes.
Bruce’s take on why the New Christian Right movement did not cause social change
It protested against abortion, LGBT+ rights, feminists, therefore not in consensus with wider society.
Whose theory is ‘Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism’?
Weber
Protestant Ethnic and the spirit of capitalism
Capitalism developed after a growth in protestant beliefs.
What 4 Calvinist beliefs did Weber say instigated capitalism.
Vocation (other-worldly asceticism)
Asceticism
Divine Transcendence
Predestination
