Totem, worship encourages shared values, religious institutions maintain value consensus
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Malinowsky
religion deals with situations of emotion that threaten social order, promotes stability
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Parsons
Answers life's questions, value consensus, meaning
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Bellah
Civil religion - collective feeling, togetherness, order and stability
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Karl Marx
False consciousness, opiate - dulls the pain, unaware of unfair society, religion justifies suffering, tells people position is chosen by god, promise of afterlife. conservative force
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Lenin
Spirtual gin - confuses w.c and keeps them in their place
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Maduro
Religion can bring about social revolution - Martin Luther King
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Weber
Calvinism - religious social change brought about captialism
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Simone De Beauvior
Exploitive and oppressive, rewarded in heaven for suffering in present life, allows women to be inferior to men in hope of gaining afterlife
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Weber
Religion is a force for social change - Calvinism
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Bruce
Studied relationship between religion and social change. CRM example of religious social change
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Engels
Religion prevents change but can challenge the status quo
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Bloch
Principle of hope
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Gramsci
Hegemony
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Maduro
Religion is not always a conserative force - church provides help for the poor - liberation theory
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Wilson
Secularisation is the process when religious thinking, practices and institutions loose their significance
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Marx and Weber
Religion will disppear
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Bruce and Wilson
significance may disappear by religion won't
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Gill
100 national surveys - decline on the belief of Jesus as the son of God
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Wilson
Decline in church marriage, rise in divorce rates, rise in cohabitation, rise in children outside marriage
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Weber
Disenchantment and radicalisation
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Grace Davie
Religion is not declining, just taking a different privatised form
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Bruce
New age is too weak to fill traditional gap
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Herview
Believing without belonging
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Norris and inglehart
existential security theory
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Lyon
Postmodern society - media, globalisation, consumerism
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