SOCI 1002 Lecture 8: Lecture 8.docx

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While motivation for religion may be psychological, structure of society and people"s place in society influence the following: Content and intensity of people" religious beliefs. Form and frequency of people"s religious practices. 2000 nationwide canadian survey found 81% of adults and 71% of teenagers believed in god or a higher power. Scope, though, of religious authority has declined in canada. Other institutions have grown in importance, such as medicine, psychiatry, criminal justice, education, etc. Religion has been pushed out and does not have the same type of sway. Theoretical approaches to the sociology of religion: durkheim, functionalism, and the problem of order. When people live together, they come to share common sentiments and value, which then form a collective conscience that is larger than the individual. On occasion, this collective conscience can be experienced directly allowing people to distinguish secular everyday world of the profane from the religious, transcendent world of the sacred .

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