What is Religion?

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What is a belief?
The views or convictions that people hold to be true but we do not know for certain Individuals have beliefs but also share collective values
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What is an ideology?
They view the world in a specific way and live their life in the way that they think it should be
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What is atheism?
The absence of a belief in god- it does not mean that an individual has no beliefs, so there are different forms
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What is meant by religious?
Something and/or someone that is considered to be spiritual, sacred
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What does secular mean?
Something and/or someone that is considered to be worldly, not sacred
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What is a social construct?
Something that is defined by society, that changes according to time and place
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What is knowledge?
Something that we have no doubts
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What does falsifiable mean?
can be proven/disproven
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What does unfalsifiable mean?
Can't be proven/disproven
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What is religion a form of?
A belief system
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What does religion aim to explain the origins of?
The natural world and human beings
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What do sociologists try to explain?
The origin of religions
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What does Weber say?
Every society throughout history has had some form of religious belief, by studying primitive cultures we can look into our past
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What is animism?
An early form of religion that sees humans, animals and plants as all having spirits or souls
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What does Taylor state?
That animism is the earliest and most basic type of religion
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Why do sociologists say religion exists?
To plug in the gaps of their empirical knowledge
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