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Compare the Marxist and the Functionalist View on Religion Marxist and functionalist views of religion hold little similarities. The only main similarity between the two theories is that religion can support/ uphold and benefit some groups of people. For example Marxists believe that capitalists benefit from religion because it upholds capitalism. Whereas functionalists believed society as a whole was provided with an essential consensus of norms and values, which are essential for the smooth running of society. Marxist sociologists advocate the belief that religion reinforces the status quo and that it acts as a conservative force. This conservative force upholds the ruling class and maintains the social and economic order through ideological control. Max Weber, conveyed similar beliefs to Marx in the fact that ethical and religious ideas were strong influences on the development of capitalism, elaborated in his book "The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, (1904-1905;...

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