SOSA 3013 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Postmodern Culture, Sexual Revolution

• School: Dalhousie University
• Department: Soc & Social Anthropology
• Course: SOSA 3013
• Professor: Christopher Helland

Document Summary

At a descriptive level, secularization means the separation between church and state. Removal of religion from state politics and state structure. Religion is its own sphere government is own system without religious influence historically, church, state, education, health and welfare, the law etc. , were inextricably intertwined. Religious groups have influence in some countries, it varies (ex. Dominant religious organizations are terrified that they are losing numbers decline in participation; having to close churches and not hire priests, do not have revenue to maintain the facility. That religion is declining; so far that it will be irrelevant soon (as far as institutional structures go going to close the churches) No single perspective on religion dominates postmodern culture. Late 1970s-1980s: environmental crisis (three mile island, chernobyl, etc. ) Catastrophic nuclear meltdowns (japan crisis still not contained) Shift in work force and gender roles in society. Religion dominated how we saw sexuality and gender roles. Went to church and did things parents did.