SY101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Fundamentalism, Social Inequality, Economic Stagnation
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Offer immortality promise better times to come. Provides meaning purpose to the world. Religious authority is slowly fading as medication is becoming answers. People live together share common sentiments and values to form collective conscience. Collective conscience (216): common sentiments and values that people share when living together. Totems (216): objects that symbolize the sacred. Rituals (216): practices designed to connect people to the sacred. Ritual makes us belong to certain groups respect certain institutions strengthen certain ideas. Ignores the fact when religion increases social cohesion but also social inequality. Routinization of charisma (217): transformation of divine enlightenment into permanent feature of everyday life. Many religions place women in subordinate positions. Scriptures emphasis subordination: corinthians women should keep silence in church, sidur (jewish) blessed didn"t make me women, koran (islam) women must be obedient. People achieve upward ability reincarnated as animals. Church (222): bureaucratic religious organization accommodated itself to mainstream society and culture.
