REL 105 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Robert Neelly Bellah, Eric Wolf, Edward Burnett Tylor

• School: University of Alabama
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: REL 105
• Professor: sumaikeuchi

Document Summary

Definition: religion has a role in relation to the larger society/groups, it creates unity and identity, study of religion in term, so the function it seems to fulfil in relation to individuals, group, societies. Key terms: civil religion - bellah. Civil religion in america has background of christianity but it is not. Church and state aren"t as separate as we think. It"s a set of doctrines, narratives, figures, occasions, rituals through the states: master symbol wolf. Object of attention + cultural suspect that synthesizes complex experience. Relates different social groups to the system as a whole. Combining different beliefs, practices, and religion: virgin of guadalupe wolf. United the nation of mexico: tonantzin wolf. How religion forms you the idea of society is the soul of religion: religion is: Unified system of beliefs + practices that set the standards of sacred that unify people. People respecting the same thing makes and sustains society. Prohibition: the unwillingness to do something.