Religion And Religiousness

It is not a surprised that religion is related to people’s attitude on a host of morality and related issues. Usually, religious people are more conservative in their attitudes. Those people who are more religious show more opposition to abortion, divorce, pornography, contraception, premarital sexuality, homosexuality, feminism, euthanasia, nudity in advertisement, suicide, heavy metal, rap music, and women going that go topless Highly religious individuals are also more likely to support marriage, capital punishment, vengeance, traditional sex roles, conservative political parties, more severe criminal sentences and censorship of sex and violence in mass media. Nevertheless, it should be noticed that the relationship between religion and …show more content…
Religious participation appears to be a key element in religiousness as a predictor. For example, in a Canadian inpatient population, people who participated in more frequent worship reported lower levels of current and past abuse of alcohol and other drugs. There are probably many factors involved in the reverse correlation between religion and substances use and abuse, several theories have been proposed in order to explain the association. Gorsuch noticed two mechanisms that may be operating. First, religion as socialization process may decrease substance use through the internalization of religious anti-abuse norm. Religion provides a reference group that prescribes what people’s attitude toward alcohol and others drugs has to be. Second, Gorsuch holds that religion might serve as an alternative mean of meeting basic needs, such as the need to relieve mental anguish or social anxiety, or as an alternative to a sense on meaninglessness or …show more content…
Theoretical underpinning of this expected inverse relationship can be trace back to Durkheim’s emphasis on the social root of religion, and particularly his social integration theory of religion placed in society. Durkheim felt that religion is integrally tied to social order, playing a roll in legitimizing and reinforcing society’s values and norms. Furthermore, all of the published studies on crime and religion are co-relational. It seems that many researches assume that religion somehow prevent or reduce crime. However, it can be that people with a predisposition toward criminal behavior might be less inclined to attend to church or see religion as important for them. Domestic abuse: There has been increasing concerns with the issue of domestic violence toward spouses and children. Some studies have focused on partner or child abuse that is apparently related to religious beliefs. Similar violence related to religion has been documented across cultures and through time. In the past, like clergy abuse, domestic abuse was covered up and people seemed to prefer to belief it did not