Karl Marx, Emile Durkheim, And Max Weber's Theory: The Sociology Of Religion

The sociology of religion, a unique topic that ultimately still has room for growth. A topic so new that it cannot be dated before the nineteenth century. As it is still developing, observations of complication within this field has spurred fairly early and continuing today. Ultimately, The Sociology of Religion works to explain that all early sociologists whose efforts provided a base for the sociology of religion, either began doing empirical work or took their findings into the applied realm. According to the text, there are three constitutional assets when it comes to the Sociology of Religion; Karl Marx, Emile Durkheim, and Max Weber. The clout of these individuals trickled in throughout the beginning of sociological exploration. Karl Marx appeared with his opinion on religion during the late 1960s with his “Toward a Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right” where he explains that religion is one way that commonalty are able to console themselves from psychological or physical trauma; especially when drugs are unattainable. Emile Durkheim came out with “The Elementary Forms of the Religions Life,” which was an abstraction of the religious environment of Australian

The new paradigm acknowledges that religion does indeed exist but is not meant as an expression for something else (sexual, political, etc.) The new paradigm found its home through theories of secularization. Many theories were Marxist while others were less extreme, such as observation of attendance rates at church combined with other data to determine if religious persuasions were inclined to believe the faith they were born with. A result of these observations and religious patterns has become the face of literature and descriptive studies. Ultimately, new movements whether new groups or expressions in traditions have reconstructed the explanatory foundation for the sociology of