SOC101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Christian Symbolism, New Religious Movement

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC101
• Professor: N/ A

Document Summary

Religion a set of organized beliefs about the super-natural or spiritual world that guides behaviours and joins people into communities of believers. Faith a belief system based on conviction that does not require objective evidence to substantiate its claims: sociologists studying religion investigate its relationship with social forces, and how these forces influence individuals and their lives. Functional: durkheim"s work the elementary forms of religious life is the defining analysis of religion from a functionalist perspective. All religions originate in society, which creates religion by separating the world into the profane and the sacred. Profane: encompasses the secular aspects of life, the objects, practices, and behaviours that we experience everyday which do not inspire or motivate. Sacred: encompasses those things that we set apart, ritualize, and at time have deep emotional connections to, anything can become sacred when it is set apart from the profane world and ritualized.