نوع مقاله : مقاله پژوهشی
نویسندگان
1 عضو هیئتعلمی گروه علوم اجتماعی دانشگاه فردوسی مشهد
2 دانشجوی دکتری جامعهشناسی فرهنگی پژوهشگاه حوزه و دانشگاه
چکیده
کلیدواژهها
عنوان مقاله [English]
نویسندگان [English]
The religious elements of every culture may facilitate either social solidarity or social divergence. Sociologists have mainly paid attention to the solidifying function of religions. The current article, on the contrary, considers religions’s diverging function. For the purpose, we have used the critical-analytical method. The findings indicate that sometimes, religions call for delineating with others and at other times, it inevitably leads to such delineations without directly demanding it. Religions’s content includes all three areas of cognitive, emotional, and psycho-behavioral. Therefore, religions’s diverging influences might be pertinent to either of the three. A significant differentiation can be made between the followers of a given religion and others, while another could be internal among the followers. The followers are of various levels and sorts of religiosity. Among them, according to the second generation’s understanding, many sects and denominations take shape. The differentiation between people is sometimes defined by religions themselves and sometimes they are socially constructed. The degree and type of religion-based divergence and its effects is highly determined by the qualities and the number of followers. On the other hand, the religion’s rules and prescriptions regards with followers’s communication patterns, also the followers’ interpretations and selective understanding of these rulings, are defining in the degree, type, and effects of social divergence. Social divergence inspired by religions are manifested in differentiating beliefs, values, symbols, norms, and emotions, the most obvious outcome of which is the formation of sects and denominations
کلیدواژهها [English]
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