SOC 100A Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Linda Woodhead, Palliative Care, Analgesic
31 Dec 2018
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Sociology of religion is linked to anthropology. Both sciences came about around the same time. The history of these social sciences are not divorced from the power structures in which they continue to operate. What is important for the sociologist of religion is not to take sides, but to give generous and attentive accounts of how different forms of contemporary religion continue to be constructed by those who do. " linda woodhead (2010: 46) Religious suffering is at the same time an expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world and the soul of the soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people. " (marx, excerpt from critique of hegel"s philosophy of right , orig. Religion has a contradictory character for marx as both a protest against, and a palliative for, the real sufferings of humanity.
