SOCA03Y3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Promised Land, Conflict Theories, Undergarment
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Religion: a set of organized beliefs about supernatural or spiritual words that guides behaviour and joins people in communities of believers. Faith: a belief system based on conviction that does not activate objective evidence to substantiate its claim. E. b taylor argued that religions evolved in many distinct stages, the first being animalism: Polytheism: belief in many gods, can diffuse with all gods considered equal or hierarchal with gods ranked in important of power. Monotheism : belief in a single , all powerful , all knowing god. Civil religion: secular religion: exists when sacred symbols are integrated into the broader society regardless of their individual religious affiliations. New religious movement: an informal group without define structure, generally emerges around authortanian and charismatic leaders who suppresses rational thought to isolate members from a larger society. Sect: a small religious body with exclusive or voluntary membership, that is somewhat reperate from or hestive to the larger society.
