Chapter 15: Religion introduction to sociology 3e Test Questions and Answers.

religious experience - Answer the conviction or sensation that one is connected to "the divine" religious beliefs - Answer specific ideas that members of a particular faith hold to be true religious rituals - Answer behaviors or practices that are either required for or expected of the members of a particular group who coined the term "religion is the opium of the people"? - Answer Karl Marx Karl Marx believed that... - Answer religion reflects the social stratification of society and that it maintains inequality and perpetuates the status quo and that it was just an extension of working-class (proletariat) economic suffering Emile Durkheim defined religion as... - Answer a unified system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things Emile Durkheim believed that... - Answer religion is about community: It binds people together(social cohesion), promotes behavior consistency (social control), and offers strength during life's transitions and tragedies (meaning and purpose) Max Weber believed that... - Answer religion was a precipitator of social change How Durkheim, Weber, and Marx view religion in society - Answer Durkheim saw religion as a force for cohesion that helped bind the members of society to the group, Weber believed that religion could be understood as something separate from society, and Marx considered religion inseparable from the economy and the worker one of the most important functions of religion, from a functionalist perspective... - Answer is the opportunities it creates for social interaction and the formation of groups. religion promotes - Answer social control : it reinforces social norms such as appropriate styles of dress, following the law, and regulating sexual behavior.