CLAS100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: False Consciousness, Tied Aid, Prayer Beads

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLAS100
• Professor: Ronald Kroeker

Document Summary

Anglicans have higher income than catholics or pentecostal: protestant (work) ethic. Theory developed by weber to eplain the rise of modern capitalism. Belief where an elect of people will be saved during the second coming of christ. A person demonstrated membership in the elect group by achieving material success through hard work. Catholic and anglican church more higher up class and pentecostal is more home to lower class. Marx thought religion was an instrument to hegemony: dissuading working class from organizing around their own self- interests. False consciousness = belief that class-based hierarchy was justified on religious grounds (god planned society to be this way) Durkheim refined religion as a unified system of beliefs and practices to sacred things - he thought religion was social, social, social. 1)beliefs that some things are sacred (forbidden, set apart from the profane) 2)practices (rituals) centering on the things considered sacred. 3)a moral community (a church) resulting from a group"s beliefs and practices.