SOC100H5 Chapter 10: Chapter 10 Summary
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Collective conscience the common sentiments and values that people share as a result of living together. Rituals set practices designed to connect people to the sacred. Routinization of charisma webbers term for the transformation of the unique gift of divine enlighten into a permanent feature of everyday life. It involves turning religious inspiration into a stable social institution with defined roles. Church a bureaucratic religious organization that has accommodated itself to mainstream society and culture. Fundamentalists people who interpret their scripture literally; seek to establish a direct, personal relationship with the higher beings they worship; intolerant of non-fundamentalists. Sociologists divide religious groups into 3 types: churches, sects, cults: sects groups that usually form by breaking away from churches because of disagreements about church doctrine. Intolerant of other opinions: cults small group of people deeply committed to a religious vision that rejects main-stream culture and society.
