Religion and social change
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- Created on: 02-04-18 16:51
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- Religion and Social change
- Conservative force
- Seen as traditional through its encouragement of traditional morals and values etc.
- I.e. Abortions and Homosexuals
- Religion tends to keep things as they are.
- I.e. the Caste system in India
- Marxists, Functionalists and feminists all agree that Religion is conservative
- Marxist and feminists see this through oppression
- Functionalists say religion promotes stability
- Seen as traditional through its encouragement of traditional morals and values etc.
- Social change
- Engels suggested religion could be a revolutionary force
- Liberation theology
- Martin Luther King
- Fundamentalists promote social change but as a means of returning to a more traditional form of religion
- Weber
- Religion can create a capitalist work ethic
- The idea of predestination promoted hard work
- Ascetic ideal
- Conflict and stability
- Functionalists say religion brings stability
- Religion only creates stability within one community not between religions
- Huntington - a 'clash of civilisations'
- Conflicts caused by differing cultures and beliefs I.e. western and Islamic
- Ignores conflicts within civilisations
- New religious organisations
- World rejecting movements
- They requires total commitment and cut people off from society i.e. Moonies
- World affirming movements
- like self help/therapy groups and are tolerant of other religions
- World accommodating movements
- traditionally more relgous
- Result due to the uncertainties of social change
- Marginality - promise of better in the afterlife.
- Weber called this the 'theodicy of disprivilege'
- Relative deprivation
- Modernity and post modernity - crisis of identity
- Marginality - promise of better in the afterlife.
- World rejecting movements
- Society changes
- Urbanisation and globalisation have changed the nature of religion
- Religious communities have now had to expand meaning bonds between the are weaker
- Secularisation
- The UK is now more multicultural due to Globalisation
- Conservative force
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