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Beliefs in Society. SCLY3. * Different theories of ideology, science and religion, including both Christian and non-Christian religious traditions. * The relationship between religious beliefs and social change and stability.

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  1. Beliefs in Society SCLY3

  2. * Different theories of ideology, science and religion, including both Christian and non-Christian religious traditions. * The relationship between religious beliefs and social change and stability. * Religious organisations, including cults, sects, denominations, churches and New Age movements, and their relationship to religious and spiritual belief and practice. * The relationship between different social groups and religious/spiritual organisations and movements, beliefs and practices. * The significance of religion and religiosity in the contemporary world, including the nature and extent of secularisation in a global context.

  3. Exam: Friday 21st January 2011. 1 ½ hours at 1pm.

  4. This is what the last exam paper looked like. Yours will look more or the same, obviously with different questions.

  5. Different theories of ideology, science and religion.

  6. To propagate the human genome. To maximise your potential & rid yourself of evil Thetans. Because of evolution. Because you have been reincarnated. To contribute to society. Why am I here? You were created by God to follow His word & believe in Jesus Christ as the Saviour. To be independent & economically productive. To serve Allah, to worship him alone and to construct a moral lifestyle. To repopulate the white British race.

  7. The relationship between religious beliefs and social change and stability

  8. Functionalism: conservative force, inhibition of change, collective conscience, Durkheim and totemism, anomie; civil religions. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuSWvH9w3Vw&feature=related

  9. Marxism: religion as ideology, legitimating social inequality, disguising exploitation etc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBody5RPo2o

  10. Weber: religion as a force for social change: theodicies, the Protestant ethic. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=di5E36dZKgg&feature=related

  11. Neo-Marxism: religion used by those opposing the ruling class, liberation theology.

  12. Feminism: religious beliefs supporting patriarchy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bb9fRbLFEes

  13. Fundamentalist beliefs: rejecting change & progress by reverting to supposed traditional values and practices. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuclYrOm0BE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ra_fAYl4Th4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSXJzybEeJM

  14. Religious organisations, including cults, sects, denominations, churches and New Age movements, and their relationship to religious and spiritual belief and practice.

  15. Typologies of religious organisations: churches, denominations, sects and cults, with examples of each. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nasVqnTk0EQ

  16. New Religious Movements and typologies of NRMs eg world rejecting/accommodating/ affirming; millenarian beliefs, with examples of each. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqSZhwu1Rwo&feature=related

  17. New Age movements and spirituality, with examples. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syRtxAzYbC0&feature=related The relationship of these organisations to religious and spiritual belief and practice.

  18. The relationship between different social groups and religious/spiritual organisations and movements, beliefs and practices.

  19. Reasons why people join NRMs, NAMs and other organisations. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRqJgDTIAck

  20. Gender and religion: women’s greater participation, women in religious organisations including NRMs; men’s participation and organisational roles in religions; sexuality and religion; images of gender in religions. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dh-q5vT9fIY&has_verified=1

  21. Ethnicity and religion: religion and ethnic identity; religion in migrant communities; religions and minority ethnic groups in the UK today. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDhaj1GKBZ4

  22. Age and religion: religious participation and belief by age group; religious socialisation. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWoCGtf9jNc

  23. Social class and religion: religious participation and belief by social class. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCGb23TCrFk

  24. Globalisation and belief systems, including fundamentalism. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qmglGWMsdk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7WNXU8SuVI

  25. Postmodernity: end of meta-narratives, ‘spiritual shopping’. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqsP0vQJJ44

  26. Secularisation: problems of definition and measurement; aspects of secularisation such as: disengagement, rationalisation, rise of pluralism/diversity, desacralisation, disenchantment, individuation. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tm1-WLhtFvY&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VH_DkBI9Qsk

  27. Arguments and evidence for and against secularisation; e.g. attendance and membership; believing without belonging; the secularisation cycle theory and compensators (Stark and Bainbridge); UK compared with other countries (eg USA) and global significance of religion today. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_SB-SpNm00 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-qYJ6_fGK4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSj2wQ1Rc_A

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