SOC100H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Charismatic Authority, Church Attendance, Stereotype Threat
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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: weber"s term for the transformation of the unique gift of divine enlightenment into a permanent feature of everyday life. It involves turning religious inspiration into a stable social institution with defined roles (interpreters of the divine message, teachers, dues-paying laypeople, and so on) Church: a bureaucratic religious organization that has accommodated itself to mainstream society and culture. Secularization thesis: theory that religious institutions, actions, and consciousness are on the decline worldwide. Fundamentalists: people who interpret their scriptures literally; seek to establish a direct, personal relationship with their higher being(s) they worship; and are relatively intolerant of non- fundamentalists. Revised secularization thesis: theory that worldly institutions break of from the institution of religion over time.
