Functionalist perspective of religion
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- Functionalist Perspectives of religion
- Positive Perspective
- Main role is to integrate groups- Social stability
- Social harmony and cohesion
- Malinoski 1954
- Trobiand Island study
- Crucial to help people deal with situations of emotional stress
- Stress comes from 2 places
- Anxiety and tension in life crises- birth marriage death- accompanied by religious ceremony
- Unpredictable circumstances- produce tension and anxiety, ceremonies provide confidence and control
- Parsons 1965
- Provides the standard for moral conduct
- USA- belief underpins value consensus
- Provides answers for Q about suffering and purpose of existence
- Helps society move smoothly and prevents conflict/ anomie
- Durkheim 1912
- Secondary socialisation
- SOCIAL CEMENT
- Provides set of shared values forms collective conscience- Social stability
- Australian Aboriginal tribes study
- Societies divided into sacred/ profane
- Totem sacred because was symbol of clan/ symbolically representative of group- crucial in continuation of society
- Collective worship- sense of community
- Inclusive definition
- Positive Perspective
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