SOC100H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Ethics, Fundamentalism, Socialized Medicine
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Sociology of religion: study of beliefs, symbols, practices, and organizational forms of religions, not a question of faith or the veracity of truth claims or religious beliefs, consensus and critique. The victim is as guilty as her rapists (asaram bapu: androcentrism. Critique: charisma and routinization: religious leaders who claim to be inspired by supernatural powers and whose followers believe them to be so inspired, 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 institution with divine roles (interpreters of the divine message, teachers, dues-paying laypeople, and so on) Religion and social change: role of religion in disrupting status quo, provoke change, protest against inequality, american civil rights movement and black churches, tommy douglas and socialized medicine. Secularization thesis: theory that religious institutions, actions, and consciousness are on the decline worldwide. Religiosity and educational attachment: with higher education religiosity decreases.
