| A | B |
|---|
| Religion as a social glue - or when is god in a society in disguise? | Functionalist |
| Religion as drugs - How the Ruling class kept everyone happy before the invention of T.V, Football, soaps | Marxist |
| religion as the way to get rich - or how a few people living a simple, prue, hard-working and ecologically sound life led to the development of a capitalistic society. | Weberian |
| Religion making sense of life - or how believing anything is more fun that just being a speck of dust on the edge of the universe - and how it helps if you talk about it with your friends too. | phenomenology, postmodernism & religious compensators |
| religion is the instruenment of domimation and oppresion. Religion is the product of patriarchy | feminist |
| Religion offers people IOU's known as 'compensators' | Stark & Bainbridge |
| They argue that religion provides social intergration | Marxists & Functionalists |
| An elect group will be chosen to go to heaven therefore is you enjoy a simple lifestyle, and a rigorous self-discipline you may be part of that. Making money is an indication of succes in one's calling. | Calvinism |
| a set of ideas, values and ethics | spirit of capitalism |
| Reverend Martin Luther King played a lead role in establishing civil rights | force of change |
| Islamic fundalmentalism in Iran played a part in the 1979 revolution | Change in society |
