Religion

Religion's MindMap 

RELIGION

What is religion, and what are its various forms, social correlates, and functions?

What is ritual, and what are its various forms and expressions?

What role does religion play in maintaining and changing societies?

WHAT IS RELIGION?

Wallace: religion is belief and ritual concerned with supernatural beings, powers, and forces

Reese: bodies of people who gather together regularly for worship

Durkheim: religious effervescence as intense emotional effect through collective worship

Turner: communitas: Intense feeling of social solidarity

Religion is a cultural universal