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

Citation: admin. (2005, August 02). Chapter 9. Retrieved November 24, 2009, from Free Online Course Materials — USU OpenCourseWare Web site: http://ocw.usu.edu/Anthropology/Anthropology_of_Religion/topic9.htm.