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The church is an established organisation that is well integrated into the larger society and usually inclined to seek for an alliance with the political power, while the sect is a splinter group from a larger religion: it is often in tension with current societal values, rejects any compromise with the secular order and tends to be composed of ...
Most religions start out their lives as cults or sects, i.e. groups in high tension with the surrounding society, containing different views and beliefs contrary to the societal norm. Over time, they tend to either die out, or become more established, mainstream and in less tension with society.
Sociology of religion is the study of the beliefs, practices and organizational forms of religion using the tools and methods of the discipline of sociology.This objective investigation may include the use both of quantitative methods (surveys, polls, demographic and census analysis) and of qualitative approaches (such as participant observation, interviewing, and analysis of archival ...
[1] [3] [4] Glock was a council member in the Religious Research Association in the early 1950s; president, American Association of Public Opinion Research, 1963–1964; one of the earliest members of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, and its president, 1967–1968; during 1978–1979, he served as vice-president of the American ...
Bellah's magnum opus, Religion in Human Evolution (2011), [22] traces the biological and cultural origins of religion and the interplay between the two. The sociologist and philosopher Jürgen Habermas wrote of the work: "This great book is the intellectual harvest of the rich academic life of a leading social theorist who has assimilated a vast range of biological, anthropological, and ...
As of 2010, bigotry and discrimination in employment are usually restricted to a few places where extreme forms of religion [clarification needed] are the norm, or in areas with a long history of sectarian violence and tension, such as Northern Ireland (especially in terms of employment; however, this is dying out in this jurisdiction, thanks ...
Religion is a modern Western concept [8] not used before the 1500s when the compartmentalized concept of religion arose, where religious entities are considered separate from worldly ones. [6] Furthermore, parallel concepts are not found in many cultures, and there is no equivalent term for "religion" in many languages.
This category is for articles describing relationships between religious and non-religious aspects of society. See Category:Religious faiths, traditions, and movements for societies within particular religions.