Sociology Presentation Religion

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Religion

Kelsey McHugh, Kevin Stapleton, Eric Huet, Cecila Grugan,Lily Dudek, Yuqing Zhang, Christian Sarzosa Caicedo


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What is Religion?

Sociologists study the relationships between religion andsociety, and the role religion plays in peoples lives.

Sociologists do not try to prove or disprove someonesfaith, they only deal with things that can be observed ormeasured.

Emile Durkheims findings:

The worlds religions are so varied that they have no specific beliefor practice in common.

All religions develop a community centering on their beliefs orpractice

All religions separate the sacred from the profane.


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Three Elements of Religion

Beliefs

Practices

Moral community


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Functions of Religion

Questions about ultimate meaning

Emotional Comfort

Social Solidarity

Framework for how people should live their lives

Sets limits on peoples behaviors

Occasionally helps spread change


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What is the most important thing your religion has given you?


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Dysfunctions in Religion

Being used to justify oppression and brutal acts. From the1200s up until the 1800s, women were tortured for beingalleged witches, through the Roman Catholic Church.

Wars in history have been fought over religion.


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Symbolic Interactionist Perspective

ALL religions use symbols to prove identity and createsocial solidarity for their members.

Religions use Symbols

Rituals Beliefs


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Symbolic Interactionist Continued

Religious Experience- refers to a sudden awareness of thesupernatural or a feeling of coming into contact with god

Born again- term used by Protestants to describe someonewho has had a religious experience


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Religious Groups

Cults- a new or different religion whose teachings andpractices put it at odds with the dominant culture andreligion

All religions begin as cults

Often originate with a charismatic leader

Christianity as a cult?

Majority of cults fail

Hare Krishna


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Sects

When a cult starts to become accepted by many, it losesthe term cult and is considered a sect.

Members still feel tension between their beliefs and thebeliefs of the dominant religion of their society

As a sect grows, some beliefs may change to betterconform and fit in with the rest of society

Mormons started as a sect


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Church

Relationship with God has become less intense

Worship is more sedate with formal sermons and writtenprayers

New members come from within the church as opposed tojoining through conversion having seen the truth


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Ecclesia

Integrated between religion and government, difficult to tellwhere one ends and the other begins

Shaping society

Religion is part of a cultural identity, no an eye-openingexperience

God is less personal and more remote

Very formal services by trained priests

Sharia- Islamic Law


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Religious groups are top-heavy and bottom-heavy

Mormons and The Assembly of God also show statusinconsistencies because they are high ranking in one category andlow in other categories.

Race-Ethnicity

Racial-ethnics groups tend to cluster together Sunday morning from 10-11 AM is called The mostsegregated hour in the United States.


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Spirit of Capitalism

Accumulate profits by investing money

Encouraged the traditional approach

It was when Protestantism came along that the Spirit ofCapitalism came alive

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Capitalism

Summary:

The change in religion, from Catholicism to Protestantismled to change in thought and behavior, which resulted inthe Spirit of Capitalism.

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4/25/12 Conflict Theory Perspective onReligion Conflict Theorists are generally highly critical of Religion

Karl Marx was an atheist who believed that religion was an

escape for the oppressed workers to make them lessmiserable

What God wants.

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Survey Results

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Types of Religious groups

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