Religion & Class
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- Religion & Class
- Functionalists
- All classes are attracted to religion as it integrates them into society
- Malinowski
- People are attracted to Religion in times of need - when fishing in the sea rather than the lake
- Those in less secure positions are more likely to be religious because they need the compensators, being poor and in need. These are more likely to be the working classes
- Religion is needed as it blinds them to oppression or offers salvation from dark times
- Religion is the opiate of the people, blinding them to their oppression and legitimizing ruling classes.
- Religion is needed as it blinds them to oppression or offers salvation from dark times
- Those in less secure positions are more likely to be religious because they need the compensators, being poor and in need. These are more likely to be the working classes
- People are attracted to Religion in times of need - when fishing in the sea rather than the lake
- Malinowski
- All classes are attracted to religion as it integrates them into society
- Marxists
- Marx
- Religion is the opiate of the people, blinding them to their oppression and legitimizing ruling classes.
- Gramsci
- Religion can be used as a tool to support r/c hegemony but can also be a revolutionary force
- Religion can be used as a tool to support r/c hegemony but can also be a revolutionary force
- Maduro
- Religion can be a revolutionary force - catholic priests standing up to the royals in favour of the working class.
- Religion can be used as a tool to support r/c hegemony but can also be a revolutionary force
- Religion can be used as a tool to support r/c hegemony but can also be a revolutionary force
- Religion can be a revolutionary force - catholic priests standing up to the royals in favour of the working class.
- Marx
- Existential Security Theory
- Norris & Inglehart
- Those in less secure positions are more likely to be religious because they need the compensators, being poor and in need. These are more likely to be the working classes
- Religion is needed as it blinds them to oppression or offers salvation from dark times
- Religion is needed as it blinds them to oppression or offers salvation from dark times
- Those in less secure positions are more likely to be religious because they need the compensators, being poor and in need. These are more likely to be the working classes
- Norris & Inglehart
- Stark & Bainbridge
- Religion offers Compensators in another life - heaven etc., which attract the disadvantaged.
- Religion offers Compensators in another life - heaven etc., which attract the disadvantaged.
- Churches
- Churches attract the upper classes due to close links with monarchy and state.
- Fewer working class people now attend as it is no longer their wish to be respected as the upper classes are
- Brierley - the working classes feel alienated from churches as they are middle class institutions.
- Sects
- Cults are for the lower classes as benefits are given.
- They are however, also for the middle classes as they are more able to part with worldly goods.
- Barker - The middle classes were attracted to the Moonies as they offered them a sense of belonging and community.
- Wallis - the most disadvantaged are attracted to sedcts/relatively deprived.
- Cults
- Cults are mostly for university educated middle class, middle-aged, or those in the caring professions.
- Bruce - 2 Types of Cults - THE NEW AGE
- AUDIENCE CULTS
- CLIENT CULTS
- WORLD AFFIRMING NRMS
- Middle Class/Middle Aged
- Denominations
- Respectable but anti-establishment
- Middle classes or the upper working classes are the most attracted to denominations.
- Too anti-establishmentfor the higher classes
- WORLD REJECTING NRMS
- Attract the deprived, relatively deprived and marginalized.
- WORLD ACCOMMODATING NRMS
- Attract anybody concerned by a lack of morality in society.
- Functionalists
- Religion can be a revolutionary force - catholic priests standing up to the royals in favour of the working class.
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