Essays on Secularization

History: “Secular” Concept

The association of secular to the worldly notion by Protestant Reformation indicates transformational changes being experienced. The “secular” concept indicating nonreligious activities, if accepted, they are driving people away to worldly needs. The religion is at the center of the experiencing changes in the authority of faith and restoration of the destroyed faith in authority. The major concerns are directed on how layman uses these authorities subject to what ordained priests consider transformation achievement. The approach by the priests to assess the changes experienced by the laymen, it gives an indication of secular concepts and relating it to the ...

Part 1

The sociology of religion is concerned with how religion influences society beliefs, personality and culture. Religion can be a source of solidarity or conflict in society. The 1993 Religious Freedom Restoration Act Prohibits any state from burdening a person's freedom of worship/ religion considerably even when its general applicability results to burden. There are exceptions to this provision; if it can be determined that when the burden is applied to the person it advances a governmental interest. Also, there are specific legal protections in health care that provide a leeway to providers and facilities that are unwilling to pay ...

The Class

Sociology of religion: Healing “Religion and Healing: The Four Expectations” by Martin E. Marty discusses healing and its relation to religious means. It talks about the two main aspects of healing which have always existed alongside but, at the same time, contradicted each other. The first one refers to the notion as a medical term while the second one refers to it as to faith or credence. There have been many changes in the understanding and interpretation of healing during the recent centuries. At a time, the connection between religion and healing has weakened. Analysts started to define healing ...

Hubert Knoblauch in his book, Spirituality and Popular Religion in Europe, tends to believe that Europe is not as secular as other writers view it to be. In fact, he says that their opinion is only exaggerated(Turner, 2008). Other writers are criticized for seeing religion in institutional forms, but cannot account for the general religious change that includes Europe. He argues that religion should be viewed in a more mild way. Complementing of religion through basic means is to be considered. The book focuses on marked religions such as Christianity whereby it is highly visible and alternative religions. ...

Today one of the major problems of education implies a collision of information culture of students who called digital native and information culture of teachers who began to use the possibilities of these technologies in adulthood (digital immigrant). This led to a rapid rise of the amount of information that is really an information explosion. It also leads to large-scale changes in the methods and the nature of communication between people and development of the information society as one of the leading contemporary social processes. Such changes of socio-economic conditions can not affect the socio-psychological and psycho-pedagogical portrait of ...

Body Modification Is Influenced by Culture

Introduction This paper argues that body modification is influenced by the culture. To support such argument, the paper discussed the prevalence of body modifications in the form of tattoo and cosmetic surgery as the culture influenced them.

Body Modification in the form of Tattoo

Proofs of tattooing and associated practices started from the most primitive human societies. For instance, Egyptian mummies from the era of the Middle Kingdom have exposed a widespread culture of body marking. In a spiritual cosmology, the unassailable tattoos of humanity could be exchanged for spiritual privileges in the next life. In traditional cultures, tattoos commonly serves as an assurance for good ...

The social development of the current world has been influenced by the religious manifestations since the oldest times. Past and current religions have shaped societies as they are nowadays known, with religion playing a major role in establishing people’s morals, attitudes and believes about life. As religion has played such a major role in humans’ lives since it can be traced, it is no wonder that it has received considerable attention in literature. Three such literary pieces that explore the nature and the effects of religion on society are Emily Dickinson’s “She Rose to His Requirements”, Mohsin ...