SOCA02H3 Lecture : Lecture Notes (second half of Religion and beginning of Environment)
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secularization: people are likely to characterize their experiences based on nature (ex: tsunami, most people understand scientific mechanisms, they have a natural interpretation of, lisbon (in portugal) 90,000 people died after earthquake and tsunami. Don"t give help to the people because the tsunami is god"s punishment of sin . death: some see religion as a mark of ethnicity. religion is secondary to the ethnic identification: religion seen in nationality (secondary to identification in the nation state) Future of religion www. notesolution. com: religion will still exist, secular institutions taking over religious areas, there will always be religious revivals, polarization between people who are religious (social conservatives) and people who are not religious. seen in the united states: conservative and liberals: conservative see the decline of religion as moral decline (not all) Liberals see decline in religion as freedom of choice. para-religion: something that is near to religious belief: ex: scientology.
