Religion is a conservative force

Question 1

Key points from functionalism

Answer 1

Durkheim
- social solidarity (community)
-offers guides for how we act - collective conscious

Parsons
-religion creates social harmony e.g America created the core values to make social harmony

Malinowski
- emotional support when having a life crises

Question 2

Key points for Marxism

Answer 2

Marx
- FCC - leads to divine compensation and masks the problems that we face
- divine authority
- r/c ideology

Leach
- privileged leaders have no motivation (Cofe)

Hook
- conservative beliefs maintain dependency

Question 3

Key points for feminism

Answer 3

Mary daly
- sacred texts perpetuate patriarchal myths

De beauvoir
- dominant religious leaders are mainly male
‘the second sex’