Theories of religion
- Created by: Aimee Phipps
- Created on: 31-10-17 12:15
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- Theories of religion
- Defintions of religion
- Substansive
- Focus on the content of religious beliefs
- Functional
- Focus on the social or psychological functions it performs for individuals or society
- Constructivist
- Focuses on how members of society define religion themsleves
- Substansive
- Functionalist Views
- Durkheim
- For Durkheim the key feature of religion is the distiction between the scared and the profane
- Reeligion invloves practices in relation to the sacred
- Psychological functions
- Bronislaw Malnowski
- Where the outcome is important but uncontrollable
- At times of life crises e.g. birth deaths
- Parsons
- Parsons sees religion helping individuals to cope with unforeseen events and uncontrollable outcomes
- it provides a source of meaning and answers ultimate questions about lfie
- Civil Religion
- Bellah argues that civil religion integrates society in a way that America's many different churhces and denominators can not.
- Durkheim
- Marxism
- Religion is an ideology
- Religion as Alienation
- Life after death
- Compensation for suffering
- Supernatural intervention
- Justifying social order
- Defintions of religion
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