RELGION

Conflict Perspective and Religion

Conflict Perspective and Religion

Conflict theorists focus on ways in which people use religion to repress, constrain, and exploit others. Scholars who view religion from the conflict perspective focus on how religion turns people's attention away from social and economic inequality. This perspective stems from the work of Karl Marx, who was of the opinion that in the inhumane world religion has myriad number of humane features and the human experience was responsible for the arousal of it. He explicated the structure of religion as the "symbol of the broken creature the emotion of a the world which ...