What Is Religion In Sociological View?

Question

Religion is a social institution inolving beliefs and practices based on recognizing the sacred.

Sacred - set apart as extraordinary inspiring awe and recerence.

Profane - An ordinaryu element of everyday life.

Faith - belief based on conviction rather than scientific evidence.

My teacher assigned me religion as my topic to present in my sociology class. I do not understand ANY of the information coming from my textbook and I am not religious at all..may somebody please break it down in SIMPLER TERMS so a group of six graders can understand and that my whole class would know what I am talking about instead of just reading off the paper...if you can also give me an example for each one, that would be nice. thank you for your time

Remember...I need to use EACH TERM into REAL LIIFE examples..so please helpp

Answer 1

Religion is a set of rules which people abide to in spiritual faith, in exchange of blessing.Hence the term "Karma". Do good get good, do bad get bad.

In certain cultures, religion means worshipping of idols, in exchange of blessing. Where worshippers regard idols as representatives of higher spiritual beings.

Answer 2

Karl Marx said religion was the opiate of the masses.

It was what kept teh worker from ratllign his chains and bringing down hte collapse of capitalism.

this was shown to be the case when the English revolution never happened chartism was defeated and people turned to methodism.

Weber talked about the protestant work ethic whereby protestants have a really powerful god who alone decides their fate they have to work hard and live a clean life just to be in line for gods choosing to let them into heaven - This had a great impact on society.

With a the setting up of a lot of self -help movements to help the poor.

Today the archbishop of canterbury has called upon  peopel to think about Muslims in our siciety adn whether sharia law shoudl co-exist with our own laws in some way.

these are all sociological issues.

I guess the biggest thing that faces society today is how to integrate given the number of religious wars around us .

Answer 3

The bible says that faith is the substance of things hoped for the evience of things not seen....(hebrews 11.1) but it means u believe something that you cant see...

Religion is a set of guidelines a person believes is true and chooses to live by... like some say that eating meat is wrong so they dont eat meat because of what they believe.

hope that helps