Religion and faith; two of the most influential and effective functions for individuals in any culture, tradition, ritual, or society that allows a community to either thrive together and function as one or has proved to be disastrous as there are differences in many religions that increase issues rather than resolve them. Religion is the study of other social institutions, a set of attitudes, beliefs, and practices that leads to one higher power or “supernatural power”. Religion has proven to be one of the biggest social factors around the world since the beginning of religion. The works of Emile Durkheim was the first to label a “structural-functional” approach on religion. Through Boundless.com, “Durkheim argued that religion is, in a sense,
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The three functions of what religion possesses to be functional are to prove special cohesion to help maintain a social solidarity through shared beliefs, ideas, or rituals. The second way is to provide social control on religion and their morals away from their norms to main order. Lastly, religion is to offer purpose and meaning for questions that even maybe science can not even answer, questions about life, etc.Anthropologist, Bronislaw Malinowski, who was one of the most influential of the 20th century, stated that, “religious ritual increases under conditions of uncertainty”, this shows that when our faith and belief diseases, many of us turn to religion as a solid ground to stand on. The amount of followers various religions have, also gain the influences that give individuals that are overwhelmed with uncertainty a sense of belief and comfort that there is a higher supernatural power watching over us or with us as long we instill our faith in that higher power. Religion possesses three physiological functions as well: acceptance of harsdh circumstances, denial of death as an inevitability, and improving your own self-image by never changing yourself when times of crisis became …show more content…
The one question: science has not destroyed religion, why? First of all, religion acknowledges faith, belief, and revelation. Science acknowledges reason, experiments, and evidence. But they both share one determined goal, a never-ending search for a greater knowledge , power, understanding of the universe as a whole; the “truth”. Religion and science do have a love-hate type of relationship. For instance, Religion has evidence by using holy, sacred texts, symbols, and traditions that have roamed earth for thousands of years. Science uses the ideas of textbook, symbols, testing, hypotheses, experiments, and ideas. This brings up the uncertainty of bounded v. unbounded explanations, as for religion, there is an amount of unbounded explanations due to many accounts through the years of religion being preached, passed and counts of individuals before our time now. Science on the other hand is bounded on explaining becaused the aspect is barred on time consumption and being able to explain ideas or
The three functions of what religion possesses to be functional are to prove special cohesion to help maintain a social solidarity through shared beliefs, ideas, or rituals. The second way is to provide social control on religion and their morals away from their norms to main order. Lastly, religion is to offer purpose and meaning for questions that even maybe science can not even answer, questions about life, etc.Anthropologist, Bronislaw Malinowski, who was one of the most influential of the 20th century, stated that, “religious ritual increases under conditions of uncertainty”, this shows that when our faith and belief diseases, many of us turn to religion as a solid ground to stand on. The amount of followers various religions have, also gain the influences that give individuals that are overwhelmed with uncertainty a sense of belief and comfort that there is a higher supernatural power watching over us or with us as long we instill our faith in that higher power. Religion possesses three physiological functions as well: acceptance of harsdh circumstances, denial of death as an inevitability, and improving your own self-image by never changing yourself when times of crisis became …show more content…
The one question: science has not destroyed religion, why? First of all, religion acknowledges faith, belief, and revelation. Science acknowledges reason, experiments, and evidence. But they both share one determined goal, a never-ending search for a greater knowledge , power, understanding of the universe as a whole; the “truth”. Religion and science do have a love-hate type of relationship. For instance, Religion has evidence by using holy, sacred texts, symbols, and traditions that have roamed earth for thousands of years. Science uses the ideas of textbook, symbols, testing, hypotheses, experiments, and ideas. This brings up the uncertainty of bounded v. unbounded explanations, as for religion, there is an amount of unbounded explanations due to many accounts through the years of religion being preached, passed and counts of individuals before our time now. Science on the other hand is bounded on explaining becaused the aspect is barred on time consumption and being able to explain ideas or