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Analyse and Evaluate the relationships between religion and social change.
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Analyse and Evaluate the relationships between religion and social change. This essay looks at the connection between religion and social change in society and how one encourages or inhibits the other. There are different views in society whether social change should change forwards or backwards, these views are based on Marxist, Feminist, functionalist and Fundamentalist. Marxist looks at capitalism within the society, meaning how society is made up of economic groups that can dominant each other with positive and negative effects. Marxist would want society to change forwards as it would lead to a fairer society as religion often legitimates the position of the ruling class for example monarchs in medieval Europe ruled by divine right. According to Marxist religion justifies the dominance of the ruling class and provides consultation for the subject class. Feminist see religion as a conservative force, feminist have seen it as maintaining patriarchy ( the male domination...
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