WK 11 Believing

Question 1

Secularization thesis

Answer 1

belief that reason and science would triumph over faith an religion

Question 2

Religion definition - Berger

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audacious attempt to conceive of the universe as being humanly significant

Question 3

religion=

Answer 3

social instituion

Question 4

Faith

Answer 4

acceptance of beliefs and ideals that may not be amenable to verification through experimentation and reason

Question 5

Karl Marx

Answer 5

concerned with social function of religion, not with philosophical disputed about the existence or non existence of god

Question 6

Emile Durkheim

Answer 6

believed religion served a key function in creating social cohesion and an important agent of social control

Question 7

The sacred and the profane- Emile durkheim

Answer 7

Believed that all societies divide human experience into two categoriesP

Question 8

profane

Answer 8

the realm of the everyday involves those aspects of social reality that are routine and secular

Question 9

Sacred

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extraordinary and awe-inspiring, beyond the profane realm- evokes an attitude of reverence

Question 10

Calvinism- John calvin

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god has already divided people into categories of saved and unsaved- one’s fate is predetermined no matter how kind you are or how hard you work. (offered ideological basis for the development of capitalism)

Question 11

protestantism- Max weber

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an individual is religiously compelled to follow a secular vocation with as much zeal as possible

Question 12

Protestant ethic

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provides religious sanction that fosters a disciplined spirit- which encourages people to work hard to acquire wealth

Question 13

Secularisation thesis

Answer 13

that social scientists believe religion and the supernatural will end in the next few decades

Question 14

New religious movements

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appears as religious, ethical or spiritual group- not yet recognised in mainstream

Question 15

Fundamentalism

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religious movement or POV characterised by a return to what is defined as the fundamental principles of the religion by rigid adherence and often strong opposition to secularism

Question 16

Features of fundamentalism

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see themselves as a minority even when they are the majority, led by charismatic males, generate their own language, basis for communal and personal id, distrustful of modernist cultural hegemony

Question 17

Categorisation of fundamentalist groups

Answer 17

world conqueror movements, world transformer movements, world renouncer movements