SOC100H5 Lecture 16: SOC100 Lecture 16 Notes.docx
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Consensus: unified systems of belief, sacred things set apart ritual, profane forbidden, unite people into a single moral community, religion"s purpose: allows for a sense of community, creates structure to daily life, provides explanations, rules and norms to guide, sense of purpose and meaning, provides comfort. 70% of canada is christian: levels of education worldwide is increasing, buddhism, schism, and islam are growing in canada, the fastest growing by percentage is neopaganism, preteen and children have a high involvement in religion, then drop out when they become older, religion used in canadian politics will cause you to maybe never be elected. Religious fundamentalism: each religion has a fundamentalist group, conservative reactions to social change, immigration etc, trend: fundamentalism is on the rise, secular thesis is true in that religion is decreasing, but the fundamentalist groups are increasing, fundamentalists don"t like others of their own same religion sometimes because they believe they are interpreting the religion wrongly.
