Chapter 9
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Reading Assignment: Chapter 9, Religion and Society
As you read, consider the following questions and/or ideas:
- Religion, politics, and the social order
- State churches and civil religion
- Religion and economics
- Religion and gender
Video Lectures
| Introduction to Religion and Society (WMV) (MOV) | |||
| Religion and the Social Order - Among the Aboriginal Australians (WMV) (MOV) | |||
| Religious Ritual in Large Scale Societies (WMV) (MOV) | |||
| Religion and Politics (WMV) (MOV) | |||
| Civil Religion (WMV) (MOV) | |||
| Examples of Civil Religion (WMV) (MOV) | |||
| Religion and Economics (WMV) (MOV) | |||
| Hindu Jatis (WMV) (MOV) | |||
| Weber's "Protestant Ethic" (WMV) (MOV) | |||
| Religion and Gender (WMV) (MOV) | |||
| Gender Stratification (WMV) (MOV) | |||
| Economics and Gender Stratification (WMV) (MOV) | |||
| Women's Cults (WMV) (MOV) | |||
| Impact of Socioeconomic Factors on Religious Status (WMV) (MOV) | |||
| Conclusion to chapter 9 (WMV) (MOV) | |||
Lecture Notes
Chapter 9 lecture notes (PDF)
Quiz
Chapter 9 quiz (HTML)
Images
Chapter 9 images (HTML)
Additional Resources
- Cults - http://www.questia.com/Index.jsp?CRID=cults&OFFID=sel&KEY=cults
- Definition of Theocracy - http://www.cqpress.com/context/articles/epr_theo.html
- Sumer - http://history-world.org/sumeria.htm
- Argument for state theocracies in the U.S. - http://atheism.about.com/b/a/019207.htm
- Separation of church and state - http://atheism.about.com/od/churchstate/
- Medieval theocracies in a modern age - http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/1998/399/op5.htm
- Hindu Jatis - http://www.kamakoti.org/hindudharma/part20/chap1.htm
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