Chapter 9

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