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Sin | Sort of musical disobedience to God | |
Weber | He says net joined up beliefs can change society | |
Marx | Stated that infrastructure creates beliefs | |
Puritan | Leonard Chamberlain was purely one of these | |
Durkheim | He says by religion people worship society | |
Functionalist | Durkheim and Malinowski cohere as variants | |
Marxism | Class struggle for social change | |
Islam | Submission said to have existed since Adam | |
Buddhism | Dharma 500 years older than Christian friend | |
Hinduism | Back religion of none, one, three, thirty three thousand, Gods | |
Jainism | Religion that inspired Gandhi and doesn't harm animals | |
Protestants | Christians who declare objection to God's vicar on earth | |
Liberation | Form of freeing theology that uses Marxism | |
Salvation | Army of saving from sin and achieving bliss | |
Postmodernity | Condition of choice, no metanarrative, no objective truth | |
Calvinist | Protestant who believes in predestination where work honours God | |
Predestination | Situtation of all knowing God who knows who is saved and damned before they live | |
Spirit | That capitalist aspect that matches the Protestant Ethic | |
Civil | Rights of M. L. King and Bellah's religion | |
Tutu | Liberating opponent of Apartheid and slang for upper second degree | |
King | The most royal of civil rights men | |
Luther | Original reformer and civil rightsist who was not dross | |
Poland | Country of religious Solidarity | |
Capitalism | Economic system that spirits the Protestant Ethic | |
Sign | What a Calvinist needs to be directed to assuredness about salvation | |
False | Form of consciousness that misleads from true interests | |
Nelson | Admirable sociologist who gives examples where religion has undermined social stability | |
Conservative | Status quo party of social impact of religion | |
Atheism | A godless condition | |
Sacred | Coloured spoken forbidden of a numinous quality | |
Animism | Plants and animals endoed with the sacred | |
Totemism | Sacred object binding society mystically to send American Indians up the pole | |
Belief | Something held to be true, sometimes supernatural | |
Cargo | Cults of millenarian style in New Guinea when trade goods will miraculously appear | |
Wallis | Cult man | |
Wilson | Prime Ministerial sect man | |
Christianity | start of Common Era religion | |
Conscience | It is individual and, for Durkheim, collective | |
Cult | sometimes New Age and older leadership dependent group | |
Denomination | Socially mobile between sect and church | |
Disenchantment | Sad feeling of the march of rationality and science dropping religion as a social factor | |
Ecumenism | Different Chritian groups getting together, some say due to secularisation and decline | |
Ethnicity | Shared identity constructed from on cultural, religious and traditional factors, only may be racial | |
Fundamentalism | Return to scriptural literalism in religion | |
Halvey | Thesis that Methodism prevented workers' revolution by organising demands for peaceful change | |
Inclusivist | Broader than conventional definition of religion | |
Exclusivist | Conventional definition of religion that keeps ouy other meaning systems | |
Individuation | Process where religious institutions are less important in an individual's search for maning | |
Magic | Means of ritual to bring in supernatural powers to intervene in the world | |
Messiah | Prophet to bring in the end time; the saving prophet | |
Messianic | Movement of the type and perceived time that expects the world to be transformed or ended by supernatural intervention | |
Monotheism | One single God | |
Myth | A sacred story of significance in a culture | |
NRM | Capitals for up to date cults | |
Right | New of form of this hand that wants to back to traditional values | |
Nonconformity | Dissent from practice of Anglican Church in England and Wales | |
Opium | Religion is like this drug, said Marx | |
Polytheism | A religion with many Gods | |
Profane | Anything not set apart and forbidden, according to Durkheim | |
Religion | Organised expression of meaning, often involving the sacred | |
Religiosity | Attempt to measure how religious someone is. | |
Revolutionist | Sect type (after Wilson) that thinks the world will change after one single coming cataclysmic event | |
Rite | Ritual that sees someone passing through an important stage of life. | |
Catholic | Roman and hierarchical church | |
Secularisation | Process by which religion loses social significance | |
Taboo | Forbidden by religion or custom | |
Theocracy | Where the priestly caste runs the state on behalf of its religion | |
Theodicy | Explanation of the contrast between a loving all poweful \god and the existence of evil and pain in the world; Weber has it of disprivilege for religion explaining and allowing inequality | |
Theory | In sociology, a systematic and general attempt to explain social phenomena | |
Hypothesis | A theory that is put to research for possible modification | |
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