SOCI 1001 Lecture Notes - Theism, Civil Religion
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Makes the world meaningful, ordered, and coherent. What is sacred: extraordinary, set aside, and of ultimate concern. Help people focus on religiously motivated goals. Religion: a set of beliefs adhered to by the members of a community, incorporating symbols regarded with a sense of awe and wonder together with ritual practices. Theism: the belief in one or more supernatural deities. The manifestations of religion in everyday life. A symbolic interactionist approach to the study of religion. A micro-theoretical approach emphasizing how interactions at smaller scales scales socialize us and build society from the ground-up. Often finds a distinction between doctrine and praxis. We are going to take a 9mm pistol identical to zimmerman"s, beat it into a plow, auction it off, and donate the money to trayvon martin"s family foundation. It was a rainy monday evening when micheal and his traveling mate mary. We met in the church shed and watched as these two 9mm pistols were disabled.
