The examples described in this paper illustrate a traditional ideology in which, rather than religion being used for political purposes, the two existed together as an undifferentiated whole. This ideology which we have called integral, was ingrained in the consciousness of the people and was ...
While some people think of religion as something individual because religious beliefs can be highly personal, religion is also a social institution. Social scientists recognize that religion exists as an organized and integrated set of beliefs, behaviors, and norms centered on basic social needs and ...
This article discusses the role of what sociologist Monica Boyd refers to as an ideology of accommodation in the development of religious tolerance in Canadian workplaces. The results of a Gallup public opinion poll seeking to determine interfaith relations in countries including the U.S., France,...
As a result of the separation of church from state and school from church, religion controls a steadily narrowing sphere of society’s intellectual and cultural activity. Religion is no longer a dominant form of ideology. Its prestige and the number of its adherents are noticeably declining, ...
,... - 《Sociology of Religion》 被引量: 11发表: 2009年 ON THE ORIGINS OF A SENSE OF COHERENCE: SOCIODEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS, OR NARCISSISM AS A PERSONALITY TRAIT. This study had three main objectives: (1) to examine the relationship between sociodemographic characteristics — such as ...
Researchers have long been interested in the impact of poverty on life satisfaction, as well as in the buffering role of religion within this association.
It seem ‘natural’ to assume that as people get older and closer to death, they become more interested in what happens after they die, which is something religions have answers to. It may be that people become more religious closer to death because they find the thought of an afterlife mo...
as each is perfected and refined. The refinement of socialist economic relations leads to the merging of the working class, the cooperative farmers, and the intelligentsia; to the strengthened social unity of the people on the basis of Marxist-Leninist ideology, which expresses the interests and ...
If religion were only about piety and devotion to an ideology, I would exile it from the classroom. But the study of religion wrestles with aspects of human existence that are unavoidable. It tackles the whys as well as the whats. Proper understanding of religion requires a level...
RELIGION AND THE RISE OF LIBERAL-DEMOCRATIC IDEOLOGY IN 17TH-CENTURY ENGLAND.In classical and contemporary sociology, key elements of liberal-democratic ideology are seen as secular extensions of Protestant ideas. This case study provides a different analysis that emphasizes the problem of religious ...