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SOCL REL Ch.1

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Substantive definitions are more _______ than functional ones.
specific
Substantive definitions have difficulty accounting for religious _________.

Sub. def are sometimes __________ neat.
change


deceptively neat
Spiro provided us w/ a ______ definition of religion.

Karl Marx provided a ________ def.
Emile Dirkheim:
substantive


functional
functional
belief of multiple gods:
polytheistic faiths
the imposition of order by humans on every day events so that events seem more predictable and stable:
nomos
2 distinct terms that all known religious beliefs translate into:
profane

sacred
Durkheim: beliefs are what we _______.

rituals are determined modes of _______.
think

action
Durkheim: 2 key elements of religion:
belief

ritual
Key functions that religion serves(3):
comfort/quells dissatifaction
strengthens community
assures followers of larger cosmic order
Religious groups are essentially "________________".
comunities of memory
are religious specialists who have undergone an intese encouter with sacred forces and emerged with special powers to effect good or evil on behalf of the rest of the group:
shamans
Religious experience refers to all the individual's __________ involvement with the sacred.
subjective
The content of an act is not what makes uit a ritual act; rather it is the _______ meaning attached to the act by participants.
symbolic
Ritual helps generate ___________ conviction.

Ritual is an effective way of transforming ______ and ______.
religious


space and time
_______ consists of symbolic actions that represent religious meanings.
Ritual
________, one form of religious belief, are paraigms of human existence.
Myths
Every religion has an essential ________.
cognitive aspect
words and gestures:
symbols
common core of beliefs, values, and commitments:
cultural integration
The primary advantage of a functionalist definitional straegy is its _________.
breadth
One distinction used in many functional definitions is the social attribution of the ________.
sacred
Geertz: People interpret events and experiences as meaningful by linking them w/ a larger sense of ______.
order
Distinguishing features of functional definition are the "________ of a general _______ of existance" and their ________.
concept

order

realism
As a definitional strategy, substantive definitions have advantages: more _____ and _______.
more specific and amendable
________ is one of the most important concepts in the sociology of religion.
Power
boundaries around what one should believe or practice in order to be 'one of us':
orthodoxy
a people settled far from their ancestral homelands:
a church in diaspora
2 major strategies used by sociologist of religion:
substantive definitions

functional definitions
describes what religion does:
functional definitions
tries to establish what religion is:
substantive definitions
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