Questions of Religious Thought
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The sociological perspective is an immensely important lens with which to view various occurrences, phenomena, conceptualizations, and ideas. Essentially, it is a way of analyzing all of these factors and others in regards to their effect upon society. The sociological perspective is concerned with assessing the social repercussions of something, as well as its origination, in terms of how it impacts society. This perspective can acknowledge other facets of whatever it happens to be focused upon (such as religion), yet is predominantly concerned with the sociological roots of a particular concept and how it affects society.
The sociological perspective affects the way religion is studied in that it focuses on the social aspects of religion. Specifically, the sociological perspective tends to concentrate on certain behavioral aspects of religion. Writers such as Durkheim believe that there are other elements of religion other than just how it shapes the social order. However, he believes that the most significant facet of religion is the way it helps to reinforce—if not outright define—the social order itself (Durkheim, 1915). This notion of his is perhaps the quintessential expression of the sociological perspective in relation to religion. This perspective seeks to identify what exactly religion is doing to the social order, which has a lot to do with submission to authority.
The sociological perspective is considerably distinct from non-social scientific approaches to the study of religion such as philosophical or theological approaches, largely in that they consider social aspects of religion from a secondary or tertiary viewpoint. Religion’s social reverberations are always central to the sociological perspective. For example, theological perspectives stress the role of the creator or of a divinity much more than the sociological perspective does. The latter is aware of that role, yet subverts it—and most other things—to how society is impacted by religion
The sociological perspective is different from other social scientific approaches in that it is less focused on the individual, and the notion of individuality, as other approaches such as psychology and anthropology....
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