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Durkheim
•Sacred/Profane-things set apart/ordinary and mundane
•totemism-totems people worship represent society(even if they're unaware)
•social cohesion-religion brings society together
•cognitive function-responsable for space and time
Brionslaw Malinowski
Social solidarity through physiological functions
•when the outcome is unpredictable
•at times of life crisis e.g. death
Parsons
•religions creates and legitimates society's basic norms and values by sacralising them
•Gives answers to unanswerable questions
Bellah
Civil religion
•a believe system that that attatcges sacred qualities to society itself
•expressed through national flag and singing the national anthem
Evaluation of functionalism
•Neglects negative aspects of religion such as a source of oppression
•Ignored religion as a source of dicisionand conflict
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