SOC100H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: University Of Toronto Mississauga
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Race and ethnicity; sex, gender and sexuality; family; religion. Disclaimer: religion may be viewed differently by each person. Sociology of religion: study of the beliefs, symbols, practices and organizational forms of religions. Not question of faith or the veracity of truth claims or religion. Religion reinforces social solidarity, heightening our sense of belonging to a group and strengthening our belief in certain ideas. Profane (values and sentiments that are in our world; shared) Charismatic leaders: religious leaders who claim to be inspired by supernatural powers and whose followers believe them to be so inspired (brym & lie 2015: 226) Routinization of charisma: weber"s term for the transformation of the unique gift of divine enlightenment into a permanent feature of everyday life. It involves turning religious inspiration into a stable institution with defined roles (interpreters of the divine message, teachers, dues paying laypeople etc. ) (brym and lie 2015: 215)