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28 Μαρ 2022 · The concept religion understood as a social genus was increasingly put to use by to European Christians as they sought to categorize the variety of cultures they encountered as their empires moved into the Americas, South Asia, East Asia, Africa, and Oceania.
Nietzsche applied himself to such topics as morality, religion, epistemology, poetry, ontology, and social criticism. Because of Nietzsche's evocative style and his often outrageous claims, his philosophy generates passionate reactions running from love to disgust.
15 Ιαν 2021 · Instead of characterizing religion as the individual’s innermost beliefs, religion, from Durkheim’s perspective, is about beliefs shared by a connected group, as a societal practice. Religious beliefs belong to the group and unite its members.
A religion is a unified system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things, that is to say, things set apart and forbidden—beliefs and practices which unite into one single moral community called a Church, all those who adhere to them. (Émile Durkheim)
19 Σεπ 2018 · Humans are religious because religion provides community, identity, meaning, ecstasy, aesthetic enjoyment, social control, and emotional energy from worship and collective action. Without these secondary benefits, religion would not exist.
Religious studies are taken to have essentially two aims: one is to understand the world's religions in all their diversity, and the second is to explain why religions (or subgroups of them) arise, how they develop and are transmitted, why they attract people or why they decline and perhaps perish. When it comes to the aim of understanding ...