A2 Sociology beliefs in society
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- A2 Sociology
- Theories of religion
- Functionalist
- Durkheim - sacred and profane - collective conscience - cognitive functions
- Bellah - civil religion
- Malinowski - in times of crisis and uncertainty
- Marxism
- Lenin - 'spiritual gin'
- Marx - religion as an ideology - religion and alienation - opiate of the people
- Feminism
- Religious forms of feminism - Piety movements
- How does religion disfavour women?
- Religious organisations are mainly male-dominated
- Places of worship exclude women
- Sacred texts
- Substantive - Functional - constructionist
- Functionalist
- Religion and social change
- Religion as a force for social change
- Weber
- Calvinism - predestination- divine transcendence - asceticism - vocation or calling
- Confucianism and Hinduism
- Civil Rights movement 1960s
- Taking the moral high ground
- Channeling dissent
- Acting as the honest broker
- Mobilising public opinion
- Weber
- Religion inhibiting social change
- Marxism
- Bloch; Principle of Hope - religion has a dual face (can inhibit and encourage social change)
- Gramsci; hegemony - the ruling use ideas of religion to maintain control - a means of ideological domination
- Marxism
- Religion as a force for social change
- Secularisation
- UK
- Church attendance - fell from 1.6 (1960) to 0.8 (2013) - 'bogus baptisms'
- Religious affiliation - decline in Christianity, increase is islam
- Religious institutions - weakened by the states power - decline of clergy
- Explanations
- Weber - rationalisation- disenchantment - technologicalworldview
- Social and cultural diversity - decline of community - industrialisation - diversity of occupations, lifestyles and cultures
- Bruce; Cultural defence and cultural transition
- America
- Declining church attendance - 40% of Americas (questionable?)
- Secularisationfrom within
- Religious diversity
- UK
- Religion in a global context
- Religious fundamentalism
- Davie; Fundamentalism and modernity
- Giddens; Cosmopolitanism
- Responses to postmodernity - resistance identity - project identity
- Bruce; Two fundamentalisms - the west and the third world
- Cultural defence
- Poland and Iran
- Religion and development
- God and globalisation in India
- Hinduism and consumerism
- Hindu ultra-nationalism
- Capitalism in East Asia - Emerging economies
- God and globalisation in India
- Religious fundamentalism
- Religion, renewal and choice
- New forms of religion
- Davie; From obligation to consumption - believing without belonging - vicarious religion - spiritual health service
- Hervieu-Leger; Spiritual shopping - cultural amnesia
- Postmodern religion
- Helland - online religion and religion online
- Religious consumerism
- Self-religions and the New Age
- Religious market theory
- Stark and Bainbridge - Compensators - cycle of renewal - religious competition
- America vs Europe
- Supply-led religion
- An altetnative view; secularisation and security
- Existential security theory
- State welfare and religiosity
- Europe vs America
- New forms of religion
- Ideology and science
- Science as a belief system
- Ideology
- Organisations,movements and members
- Types of religious organisation
- Church - Sects - Denominations - Cults
- World-rejecting NRMS - World-accomodating NRMS - World affirming NRMS
- Sects (result from schisms) and Cults (audience and client cults and cultic movements)
- Explaining the growth of religious movements
- Marginality
- Religiosity and social groups
- Types of religious organisation
- Theories of religion
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