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Beliefs : thinkers - Coggle Diagram
Beliefs : thinkers
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Bellah
Civil religion , Multi faith society like america unifies the conuntry together
Parsons
Two essential functions of religion it creates and legitmates societys basic norms and values by sacralising them
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Marx
Marxists see religion as dulling the pain of class exploitation and as fostering false consciousness
Bloch
Sees religion as having dual character. He accepts that religion often inhibits change, but argues that it can also inspire protest
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Woodhead
traditonal religion is patriarchal , this is not true of all religion
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Parsons
Defines structural differentiation as a process that occurs with industrialisation as many specialised instions develop to carry out the different functions previsouly
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Durkheim
Sees religion as a conservative force because its functions to maintain social stability and prevent society from disintegrating
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Bruce
Compared two cases studies of the role of religously inspired protest movements in America The civil rights movement and the new christian right
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woodhead
Identified two common themes , self spirituality and detraditonalisation
stark and brainbridge
Criteria is needed to distinguish between religious orginisations eg , sects and cults
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Davie
Argues that both religous and secular movements can become fundemntalist due to greater uncertnties of the postmodern world
Lyon
Religion has relocated to the sphere of consumtion people may have ceased to belong to religous orginations
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Stark and Bainbridge
There is a historical cycle of religious decline revival and renewak as established by churches decline they leave a gap in the market for new sects and cults
Weber
Margionality argued that sects appeal to disprivilegged groups as a soliution to their lack of status by offering their members
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RELIGION AND SOCIAL
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Woodhead
NAMs appeal to the invidual sphere of womens inner self rahter than acting out restrictive social roles
Miller and Hoffman
Women are more religious because they are socialised to be more passive , obediant and caring
Modood
Almost all minority ethnic groups in the UK are more religious and show higher levels of religiosity than the white british majoirty
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Voas and crockett
As religion declines in importance in society each generation becomes less religious than the one before it
Bird
Religion among minorities can be a basis for community and solidarity a means of perserving ones culutre and language and a way of coping with oprpresion in a racist society
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