SOC100H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Christian Fundamentalism, Nations Of Nineteen Eighty-Four, Perton
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Questions of faith: truth and values of religious beliefs. Sociology of religion: the study of beliefs, symbols, practices and organizational forms of religions. Sociologists look at religion from the view of its roles in society, not if god exists or not. Sacred: refers to the religious, transcendent world. Something or someone important, extraordinary and declared holy. Sociologists focus on how sacred objects operate within a society, and how it unifies people together. Profane: refers to the secular, everyday world. Emile durkheim said that sacred things are those which the religious interdictions protect and isolate, profane things, those to which these interdictions are applied and which must remain at a distance from the first. Secularization thesis: theory that religious institutions, actions and consciousness are on the decline worldwide because of new science discoveries and advancing technologies. In the enlightenment period, they assumed that as society becomes more modern and rationalized, religion will eventually disappear.
