SOCI 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Richard Dawkins, Sociological Perspectives
5 Jan 2019
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Richard dawkins is a well known atheist. He argues that atheists are oppressed in many societies because they are forced to accept or endure ideas they disagree with. Objectives: after this slide show presentation, students will be able to: Explain how theorists such as marx, durkheim, and weber perceived religion. Outline levels of personal religiosity in canada. Identify and explain the sources of religion. What is religion: a religion is a system of meaning for interpreting the world. It is a unified system of beliefs with a supernatural referent. Give a sense of how to live life but may not have that supernatural referent so it will be discounted. By contrast, humanist perspectives such as communism are human centered. Religions suggest that "our existence has meaning" whereas humanists maintain that "life has no meaning, we have to give it meaning". When we study religion from a sociological standpoint, we do so scientifically.
