Mary Pat Fisher Living Religion Summary

In the news and on the internet, people are always questioning science. Many of these people are Christians who question science and also scientists who question Christianity. Are there other religions that are questioned by science a lot. In the States, it seems there are mostly just Christians and scientists who disagree a lot. Do other religions and beliefs have things that science either cannot explain or explains differently than their belief? If so, why is it not all over the news?
On page 4 of Living Religions by Mary Pat Fisher, the author talks about a French sociologist Emile Durkheim. “He proposed that humans cannot live without organized social structure, and that religion is a glue that holds a society together.” This was something …show more content…
A lot of terms were defined that I may have had the definitions a little bit off before reading this. While reading about the functional uses of religion, I could not help but to go back to the time I spent in Africa. I was there for a month and spent a majority of my time in a Monastery and worked alongside the Sisters in that Convent. I could really tell that the Sisters were held together by their religion. It gave them something in life. Many young girls would join the Convent at a young age because it gave them in some instances a better life and in others a simple feeling of being needed and a purpose. These people used their faith to get through everything. Their faith is what they used to get through trials or problems in their life. In many cases I do not know what they would have done if they did not have their faith to get them through the hard times. The girls in the Convent were taught love, compassion, discipline and so much more. The things they were taught in my mind, made them a better person. I never really thought of religion as a “glue” to their society. When I look back I can really see that their religion and faith is really what held the whole group of women