6.1 jang eun bin

 1)Summary

Religious sociology studies religion in a sociological way, using quantitative methods and qualitative approaches. The beginning was from the study of suicide rates between the Catholic and Protestant populations, which may also include the sociology of non-religiousness in modern times. The disadvantage that sociology does not evaluate the validity of religion is distinguished from the philosophical approach of religion. Classical sociologists included Emil Durkem, Max Weber, and Karl Marx. The theoretical perspectives that study religion sociologically include symbolic anthropology, phenomenology, functionalism, and rationalism. Symbolic anthropology and phenomenology are that humans try to explain human life with the existence and influence of unscientific knowledge, functionalism points out the benefits that unscientific belief systems cannot convey to society, and rationalism studies why unscientific knowledge systems are considered right among them.

2)an interesting point
Rationalism was impressive when I studied religion. It was interesting that even if the unscientific approach was a wrong approach, the reason why people who believed the argument continued to exist was because it brought about a transfer of responsibility or a great social cohesion. In fact, it also occurred to me that social leadership has created public enemies in some era, often called the end of the century, which is often an "evil" that does not actually exist. For example, witch hunts in the Middle Ages.

3)Questions
Sociology does not evaluate the rationality or validity of religion, but only focuses on how religion affects society. If so, does sociology not make any value judgments against the degradation of religion or heresy? So is that right?

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  1. 한우진June 23, 2023 at 12:02 AM

    Even if it was an unscientific approach, it was interesting to me that I believed it because it brought social solidarity. As for the question, sociology tends to deal with religious phenomena from a neutral and objective perspective, and not with the corruption of religion or the judgment of the value of heresy. Sociologists understand religious phenomena by linking them to social, cultural, and economic situations and investigate the impact of religion on social structures, belief systems, faith practices, and social order.

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