SOC 3113 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Ethics
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The elementary forms of religious life: sacred and profane, religion and society, society as religion. General social features underlying all religions: commonalities across religions, sacred, prayer, baptism. For durkhei(cid:373), (cid:862)religio(cid:374)(cid:863) is (cid:374)ot just (cid:862)(cid:272)hur(cid:272)hly(cid:863) or i(cid:374)stitutio(cid:374)al thi(cid:374)gs. His loss of faith replaced by deep sense of patriotism (delaney 2014) Three elements constitute religion: presence of sacred things, beliefs and practices, moral community. Profane- occurring as an ordinary element of everyday life. Sacred- set apart as extraordinary, inspiring awe and reverence. Meaning/ classification continually produced, reproduced, and/or altered in collective processes of ritualization and symbolization. Each element of religion revolves around the sacred. Communal function of religion: dual processes of ritualization and symbolization. Ritual- highly routinized act, patterned sequence of behavior. Create a(cid:374)d rei(cid:374)(cid:448)igorate group"s (cid:373)oral (cid:271)ou(cid:374)daries a(cid:374)d ide(cid:374)tity. Ritual ingredients: require group assembly/bodily co-presence, barriers to outsiders, mutual focus of attention, shared mood. Ritual outcomes: group solidarity, emotional energy in individual, symbols of social relationship/shared objects, standards of morality.
