Compare the Marxist approach to Religion with the Weberian.

... Sociology Religion Annabelle Atkinson "Compare the Marxist approach to Religion with the Weberian." Karl Marx believed that people's religious beliefs reflect their alienation. In pre - socialised societies, people are in a alienated relationships with their work, with the products of their work and each other. Religious beliefs therefore arise in a response to, and as a protest against, people's lack of control of their destiny and their dehumanisation and oppression. In Marx's view, religion is the self - consciousness and self - feeling of man who has either not found himself or has already lost himself again. He believes therefore that if the alienation and exploitation associated with social classes is eradicated religion will no longer be needed and cease to exist. This argument can be developed in a number of ways. First, religion distorts reality by encouraging the belief that people are dependent upon supernatural forces. This means that

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