In fact, one important aspect of their very religion is the annihilation of men ''.

When decision makers act within this frame they determine whether a claim put forward in the name of religion is to be accepted by the larger community as appropriate to religion.

I am not aware of great attention by any of these authors or by the psychotherapeutic profession to the role of literary study in the development of conscience -- most of their attention is to a pre-literate period of life, or, for the theologians of course, to the influence of religion.

An uncompromising belief in the moral law has the advantage of making religion natural, even as physical law is natural.

To Adams that age in which religion exercised power over the entire culture of the race was one of imagination, and it is largely the admiration he so obviously held for such eras that betrays a peculiar religiosity -- a sentiment he would have probably denied.

It is both great writing and profound religion.

The place of religion in the simple, preliterate societies is quite definite ; ;

If the inner functions of religion are performed, the individual is a composed, ordered, motivated, and emotionally secure associate ; ;

In the last analysis, religion is the means of inducing, formulating, expressing, enhancing, implementing, and perpetuating man's deepest experience -- the religious.

In providing for these inner individual functions, religion undertakes in behalf of individual peace of mind and well-being services for which there is no other institution.

In America also all of our major religious bodies officially sanction a universalistic ethic which is reflective of our common religion.

The religion, in fact, is an expression of the unity of the group, small or large.

His view is that every religion pertains to a community, and, conversely, every community is in one aspect a religious unit.

The unifying effect of religion is also brought out in the fact that historically peoples have clung together as more or less cohesive cultural units, with religion as the dominant bond, even though spatially dispersed and not politically organized.

The tenacity with which present metaphysical attitudes fetishize private intuition offers the strongest evidence that the gulf between scientific and delphic ways of philosophizing is built into the present conflict over the limits and purpose of science, religion and ideology.

Conscience and religion are concerned with private sin: The civil law is concerned with public crimes.

The truth is that any revival of traditional and indigenous religion will serve to promote that sense of identity and Volksgeist which these young nations very much need.

" Many would agree with the Dalai Lama that Buddhism as a religion is kindness toward others.

Altruism is essential to the Sikh religion.

Cultural anthropology also covers economic and political organization, law and conflict resolution, patterns of consumption and exchange, material culture, technology, infrastructure, gender relations, ethnicity, childrearing and socialization, religion, myth, symbols, values, etiquette, worldview, sports, music, nutrition, recreation, games, food, festivals, and language ( which is also the object of study in linguistic anthropology ).

Apollo ( Attic, Ionic, and Homeric Greek:, Apollōn ( gen .: ); Doric:, Apellōn ; Arcadocypriot:, Apeilōn ; Aeolic:, Aploun ; ) is one of the most important and complex of the Olympian deities in ancient Greek and Roman religion, Greek and Roman mythology, and Greco – Roman Neopaganism.

The function of Apollo as a " healer " is connected with Paean ( Παιών-Παιήων ), the physician of the Gods in the Iliad, who seems to come from a more primitive religion.

Marx is typically cited, with Émile Durkheim and Max Weber, as one of the three principal architects of modern social science.

Marx is typically cited, along with Émile Durkheim and Max Weber, as one of the three principal architects of modern social science.

Weber is often cited, with Émile Durkheim and Karl Marx, as one of the three founding architects of sociology.

Compared to Durkheim and Marx, Weber was more focused on individuals and culture and this is clear in his methodology.

Along with Karl Marx and Émile Durkheim, he is commonly regarded as one of the founders of modern sociology.

The word religion is sometimes used interchangeably with faith or belief system ; however, in the words of Émile Durkheim, religion differs from private belief in that it is " something eminently social ".

Religion, for Durkheim, is not " imaginary ," although he does deprive it of what many believers find essential.

After the death of Reclus as well as the main proponents of Le Play's ideas, and with Émile Durkheim turning away from his early concept of social morphology, Paul Vidal de la Blache, who noted that geography " is a science of places and not a science of men ", remained the most influential figure of French geography.

" It is in this way that systems theorists attempted to provide alternatives and an evolved ideation from orthodox theories with individuals such as Max Weber, Émile Durkheim in sociology and Frederick Winslow Taylor in scientific management, which were grounded in classical assumptions.

Durkheim authored some of the most programmatic statements on what sociology is and how it should be practiced.

Even more than " what society is ", Durkheim was interested in answering " how is a society created " and " what holds a society together ".

A key to forming society is social interaction, and Durkheim believes that human beings, when in a group, will inevitably act in such a way that a society is formed.

To that, Durkheim answered that any apparent cultural diversity is overridden by a larger, common, and more generalized cultural system, and the law.

Durkheim argued that the concept of supernatural is relatively new, tied to the development of science and separation of supernatural — that which cannot be rationally explained — from natural, that which can.

Out of those three concepts, Durkheim focused on the sacred, noting that it is at the very core of a religion.

Durkheim states that, " Religion gave birth to all that is essential in the society.

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In the sociology of Émile Durkheim, sui generis is used to illustrate his theory of an independence in social existence, as follows.

Durkheim thinks any social fact has a meaning of its own, but is only explained using the body of social facts, each having meanings of their own.

For Durkheim then, a society is a sui generis society, and will continue its its own independent existence after the apparently indispensable ( or dispensable ) or famous ( or infamous ) historical individual ceases to interact with it, and so the appearance of indispensability and deservedness is absolutely deceptive.