Functionalist perspective of religion
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- Created on: 16-12-19 21:59
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- Functionalist perspective of religion
- Durkheim
- Sacred and Profane
- Sacred: Special objects
- Profane: normal objects
- Totemism
- Cognitive functions
- Religion provide us our intellectual and cognitive capacities
- Religion gives us time
- Critics of Durkheim
- Fundamentalism divide more than encourage solidarity
- Worsely: evidence of totemism is unsound.
- Sacred and Profane
- Malinowski
- Coping mechanism when out comes are uncertain and uncontrollable
- Lagoon fishing and ocean fishing (canoe magic)
- Psychological functions
- Parsons
- Secondary socialisation
- binding people through social control
- Stabilises society
- Bellah
- Civil religion
- sacred item: flag
- Belief in god and religion
- Evaluating
- Moosa: doesnt benefit all (muslim-americans after 9/11)
- Durkheim
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