Religion serves important social functions according to sociologist A. Green. These include: (1) explaining individual suffering by putting faith in an unseen power; (2) enhancing self-importance by uniting with the infinite; and (3) providing social cohesion through values like obedience and honesty. Additional functions are encouraging social welfare through charity, acting as an agency of social control by upholding ideals, and controlling economic life as emphasized by Max Weber. In conclusion, religion has propagated basic values and ethics throughout history, providing cohesion to society and integration to personality.
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Course
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Kars, TURKEY
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Topic Report on Understanding Culture Society and Politics prepared by Group 1 under the leadership of Coleen De Leon (Hermosa National High School, Hermosa Bataan Philippines)
KAFKAS ÜNİVERSİTESİ/KAFKAS UNIVERSITY
SOCIOLOGY
Course
LECTURE NOTES AND POWER POINT PRESENTATIONS
Prof.Dr. Halit Hami ÖZ
Kars, TURKEY
hamioz@yahoo.com
Topic Report on Understanding Culture Society and Politics prepared by Group 1 under the leadership of Coleen De Leon (Hermosa National High School, Hermosa Bataan Philippines)
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Religion and Society
1. What is the “sociological perspective” and how does it impact the way we study religion? How is it different from non-social scientific (philosophical, theological) approaches to the study of religion? From other social scientific (psychological, anthropological) approaches?
The sociological perspective is a way of looking at religion that focuses on the human especially social aspects of religious belief and practice. It has two characteristics that separate it from non-scientific approaches to religion. It is empirical and objective. Sociologists usually try as much as possible to base their interpretations on empirical evidence. “They verify their images and explanations of social reality by experimental or experienced evidence. The objectivity in the sense that they do not attempt to evaluate accept or reject the content of religious beliefs .In the sociological perspective there is no religion that is superior to the other. One religion is not superior to another. Indeed the perspective does not presume the merits of religious over non-religious approaches. But if a religion has ideas on these subjects, it examines them and tries to understand them.
There are two central sociological perspectives which are: substantative and functional. Substantative tries to establish what religion is. It attempts to establish categories of religious content that qualify as religion and other categories specific as non-religion. Functional describes what religion does. It emphasizes what religion does for individual and social group. Accordingly religion is defined by the social functions it fulfills in the society
It emphasizes on the provision of meaning because the establishing of shared meaning is an essentially social event.
The sociological perspective impacts on the way we study religion in various ways. The aspects of the sociological perspective on religion may create elude a bad feeling to students who find their cherished beliefs and practices dispassionately treated as object of study as stipulated in (http://fasnafan.tripod.com/religion.pdf).Normal human beings due to their nature tend to feel bad when they find their religion becoming the subject of discussion and study. They feel that those people are abusing and disregarding their religion. It may be disturbing to have one’s own religion treated as comparable to other religions and not as superior or uniquely true.maybe maybe not---you need proof to make this claim--not just ideas
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INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER OUTLINE
15.1 The Sociological Approach to Religion
15.2 World Religions
15.3 Religion in the United States
Why do sociologists study religion? For centuries, humankind has sought to understand and
explain the “meaning of life.” Many philosophers believe this contemplation and the desire to understand our
place in the universe are what differentiate humankind from other species. Religion, in one form or another,
has been found in all human societies since human societies first appeared. Archaeological digs have revealed
ritual objects, ceremonial burial sites, and other religious artifacts. Social conflict and even wars often result
from religious disputes. To understand a culture, sociologists must study its religion.
What is religion? Pioneer sociologist Émile Durkheim described it with the ethereal statement that it consists
of “things that surpass the limits of our knowledge” (1915). He went on to elaborate: Religion is “a unified
system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things, that is to say set apart and forbidden, beliefs and
practices which unite into one single moral community, called a church, all those who adhere to them” (1915).
Some people associate religion with places of worship (a synagogue or church), others with a practice
(confession or meditation), and still others with a concept that guides their daily lives (like dharma or sin). All
these people can agree that religion is a system of beliefs, values, and practices concerning what a person
holds sacred or considers to be spiritually significant.
Does religion bring fear, wonder, relief, explanation of the unknown or control over freedom and choice? How
do our religious perspectives affect our behavior? These are questions sociologists ask and are reasons they
study religion. What are peoples' conceptions of the profane and the sacred? How do religious ideas affect the
real-world reactions and choices of people in a society?
15Religion
Religion can also serve as a filter for examining other issues in society and other components of a culture. For
example, after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and later in during the rise and predominant of the
terrorist group ISIS, it became important for teachers, church leaders, and the media to educate Americans
about Islam to prevent stereotyping and to promote religious tolerance. Sociological tools and methods, such
as surveys, polls, interviews, and analysis of historical data, can be applied to the study of religion in a culture
to help us better understand the role religion plays in people’s lives and the way it influences society.
15.1 The Sociological Approach to Religion
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
By the end of this section, you should be able to:
• Discuss the historical view of religion from a sociological perspective
• Describe how the major sociological paradigms vie.
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1. In Sociology the word 'religion' is used in a wider sense, than that is used in religious
books. Thus some sociologists define religion as those institutionalized system of beliefs,
symbols, value that provide groups of men with solution to the question of ultimate
meaning. Though the religion is a highly personal thing, yet it has a social aspect and
social role to play. It has been a powerful agency in society and performs many
important social functions. According to A. Green, religion has three universal
functions. These are:
(1) Religion explains individual suffering
Man does not live by knowledge alone. He is an emotional creature. Religion serves to
the emotions of man in times of his sufferings and disappointment. On God religion
puts faith and entertains the belief that some unseen power moves in mysterious ways to
make even his loss meaningful. In this way religion gives release from sorrow and
release from fear. It helps man to bear his frustration and integrate his personality.
(2) Religion enhances self-importance
Religion expands one's self to infinite proportions. Man unites himself with the Infinite
and feels ennobled. Society also gains from the self-flattery provided by religious belief.
Religion assures a greater reward in the afterlife to worldly failures than to successful
life. Such kind of assurance encourages members to continue to play their part in
society.
(3) Religion comes as a source of social cohesion
Religion is the ultimate source of social cohesion. The primary requirement of society is
the possession of social values by which individuals control the action of self and others
and through which society is perpetuated. Science and technology cannot create this
value. Religion is the foundation upon which these values rest. Children should obey
their parents, should not tell lie, women should be faithful to men, people should be
honest and Virtuous, are some of the social values which maintain social cohesion.
(4) Religion encourages social welfare
Religion has also performed some other services to humanity like the provision of work,
the priesthood often dedicated to art and culture. The priesthood lays the foundation of
medicine. It also fulfils the functions of scholars and scientists. Religion has served
humanity through spreading of education and also creating the habit of charity among
2. the people who open many charitable institutions like hospitals, rest houses, temples
and to help the poor.
(5) Religion is the agency of social control
Religion provides a model for living. It upholds certain ideals and values. The believer
imbibes these ideals and values in his life. Religion can help youth generation to become
moral, disciplined and socialized citizens of society.
(6) Religion controls economic life
Max Weber was of the view that religion also controls the economic life. To Weber,
capitalism grew in the Protestant nations like England, U.S.A. It did not grow in Italy
and Spain where the people are Catholic. The Hindus lay great stress on spiritual
progress than on material progress. Hence, materialism could not grow in India.
Conclusion
Thus, from the discussion we know that religion is the central element in the life of
civilization. Throughout the ages it is a proof of its values. It has been the propagator of
basic values and ethical code which provide cohesion to society and integration to
personality. If one looks dispassionately into the charges against religion and admits all
of them, in the end, he is constrained to believe that the article was worth the cost.