Sociology of Religion Exam 3

fatherly love

conditional love

motherly love

unconditional love

Who is astardid?

-the daughter of yaweh and ashera

Marcel Mousse

-the gift, nephew of Durkheim. Got this theory from Durkheim. The gift is an important part of society and religion. There is a necessity to give and receive. Giving and receiving creates social bonds. The gift cycle is never ending.

For durkheim, religion is

-the root of everything.

Peter Berger

-the sacred canopy of anomie. Anomie is social dysfunction. Everything we do falls under the sacred canopy. You will lack of meaning and that will bring anomie.

Who is ashera?

-the wife of yaweh -representedby a tree

Spanking your kids

-when you spank your kids it shows that you don't respect them and so they don't respect you back. As civilization increases, corporal punishment increases in school. When there is respect for the child the child is stronger.

positive rights

-you have to break the barriers. Giving someone as a gift, sacrificial lambs.

rational choice theorists

-you weigh out the benefits instead of actually believing. If i do this I will get this. Comes from the modernist era. For Durkheim, God is society.

Characteristics of mysticism

1) directly experienced by yourself (no one can describe it to you) 2) state of knowledge that is full of significance and importance 3) cannot be maintained for long 4) passivity 5) the will is an obedience and it is controlled by a power (you are bending your will to the force that has overtaken you)

When and why was "American Civil Religion" retracted?

- In 1992 because Bellah said he got too much shit for it.

Bacofen

-as we are getting more modern, religion is declining. Even though science is religion. People believe more in science than religion.

Positive and negative rights

-asceticism, you have prohibition: gratefulness.org (candle website) candle represented collective effervescence and contagion. Not in the spirit of the gift. Fasting for social attention for God of for God or the experience.

Difference between gift and commodity

-commodity does not have emotional value because you go and pay for it (rational choice).

Dynamo and the virgin

-connected to fatherly vs. motherly love.

Charisma leads to traditional, traditional leads to rational-legal; rational legal leads to

-disenchantment

Durkheim says that religions are becoming

-more patriarchal and moving away from matriarchy. Matriarchal are more charismatic.

anhedonic

-really depressed, total absence of feeling.

Durkheim and James say

-religion makes you stronger and you need it. Function of religion is to give you meaning privately and collectively.

Main elements of religion

-sacrifice, confession, prayer

William James

-says mysticism is a good thing. -originally in all religions. -being charismatic is being mystical -if you are rational-legal you cannot be mystical or charismatic.

Abraham Maslow

-self-actualization and peak experience: you become who you truly are. Area of study: Comes from humanistic psychology. When you drink you are more likely to have a mystical experience. When you are mystical you are totally awake to God, Buddah, or whatever Deity.

When did MLK say the most segregated time is?

Church

Who made up civic religion?

Robert N. Bellah

civic religion

The feeling that one is American, like a religion aside from actual religion.The U.S. has independence day. Without America being sacred we would not pay taxes and want to help the U.S.

muscular Christianity

YMCA

Civil religion

expansion of sacred and profane to all other things aside from religion. e.g. government, Disney land,celebrities, teachers, etc.

Durkheim's ideas about the soul

homoduplex: dualism of human nature. Higher and lower aspects of human nature. The soul is higher and the body is lower. `

Religions are

matriarchal