SOCA02H3 Lecture : Religion
Document Summary
Social forces can be an enemy of freedom since it can be manipulated. is given punishment from god people who have sinned. The future of religion: are two contradictory social processes occurring today: i. ii. Secularization increasingly, secular institutions are taking over some functions formerly performed by religion. Revival intensification of religious belief: both are likely to persist for some time, giving rise to a world neither more religious nor more secular, but one clearly more polarized. Church: european classification: church bureaucratic religious organization that has accommodated itself to mainstream society and culture, bureaucratic nature evident in: formal training of its leaders- got to go to school. its recruitment of members from all classes of society. Sects: sects: usually form by breaking away from churches because of disagreement about church doctrine. are less integrated into society and less bureaucratized than churches. Sometimes separation is geographical as well as philosophical.
