Maturity of Religiosity within Society.
Imagine a world without religion nor law! How can we distinguish from good or bad, right or wrong? Thus, where else can learn our values and our sense of morality without the both. It is a challenging question to answer; nonetheless in this world, we do have religion and a vast majority of individuals learn their core values through the very faith they choose to follow. Religion helps people connect, maintain morality, share values, and become closer towards a better version of themselves. Thus, religion has a function, and that function can be both positive or negative depending upon a person's religiosity. Religiosity can be defined as "the degree to which religion is important to a person" (Brym and …show more content…
The aim of this paper is to analyse my personal experience with religion through a functionalist perspective to demonstrate …show more content…
Functionalist theory focuses on how human behaviour is governed by social structures that are based mainly on shared values that contribute to social stability (Brym and Lie 2018:10). Examining my church going through a functionalist perspective, it is argued that religion has a positive function within a society as it yields social solidarity, cohesion, maintains moral boundaries and equilibrium (Brym and Lie 2018:10). Socialising with people within the church allows me to "bond" with them as we share the same beliefs and values that are communicated to us by our faith, thus, yielding social solidarity. As functionalists describe it "social solidarity is a kind of moral cement that binds people together" (Brym and Lie 2018:10). Furthermore, socialising within the catholic church allowed me to learn new values and beliefs which I wasn't exposed to during my time in Russia, as my degree of religiousness wasn't as great as it is now, in
Imagine a world without religion nor law! How can we distinguish from good or bad, right or wrong? Thus, where else can learn our values and our sense of morality without the both. It is a challenging question to answer; nonetheless in this world, we do have religion and a vast majority of individuals learn their core values through the very faith they choose to follow. Religion helps people connect, maintain morality, share values, and become closer towards a better version of themselves. Thus, religion has a function, and that function can be both positive or negative depending upon a person's religiosity. Religiosity can be defined as "the degree to which religion is important to a person" (Brym and …show more content…
The aim of this paper is to analyse my personal experience with religion through a functionalist perspective to demonstrate …show more content…
Functionalist theory focuses on how human behaviour is governed by social structures that are based mainly on shared values that contribute to social stability (Brym and Lie 2018:10). Examining my church going through a functionalist perspective, it is argued that religion has a positive function within a society as it yields social solidarity, cohesion, maintains moral boundaries and equilibrium (Brym and Lie 2018:10). Socialising with people within the church allows me to "bond" with them as we share the same beliefs and values that are communicated to us by our faith, thus, yielding social solidarity. As functionalists describe it "social solidarity is a kind of moral cement that binds people together" (Brym and Lie 2018:10). Furthermore, socialising within the catholic church allowed me to learn new values and beliefs which I wasn't exposed to during my time in Russia, as my degree of religiousness wasn't as great as it is now, in