Theories

Question 1

Stained glass ceiling

Answer 1

Feminism - Karen Armstrong

Question 2

Sacred and Profane

Answer 2

Functionalist
Durkheim

Question 3

Social disruption is minimised because people engage in ritualistic behaviours

Answer 3

Functionalist
Malinowski

Question 4

Civil religion

Answer 4

Bellah

Question 5

Atheism 2.0

Answer 5

Alain de Botton

Question 6

Religion as a primary source of meaning

Answer 6

Functionalist
Parsons

Question 7

The second sex - religion oppresses and controls women

Answer 7

Feminist
Simon de bouvoure

Question 8

‘If God is male then male is God’ - men superior sex

Answer 8

Feminist
Mary Daly

Question 9

Islam is not patriarchal in nature. It is the cultures it is prominent in

Answer 9

Feminist
El-Saadawi

Question 10

Women chose to wear and feel empowered by wearing the Hijab

Answer 10

Feminist
Helen Watson

Question 11

Orthodox Judaism - women happy to conform to wife/mother role

Answer 11

Woodhead and Heelas

Question 12

Religion is the opium of the masses

Answer 12

Marxist
Marx

Question 13

Religion legitimises class inequality

Answer 13

Marxist
Marx

Question 14

Poverty is holy/virtuous

Answer 14

Marxist
Marx

Question 15

Spiritual Gin

Answer 15

Marxist
Lenin

Question 16

What is the postmodernist view of religion?

Answer 16

Traditional religions have lost their status
Knowledge and truth is now relative
NAMs replacing traditional religions
Seek our own identities - not reliant on church