RELIGION AND MORALITY

Religion And Morality Are Synonymous



Table of Contents

Table of Contents2

CHAPTER I2

Introduction2

Background of Study5

Purpose Of Study6

CHAPTER II7

Review of Related Literature7

Immoral Modernity10

Morality And Rationality13

Morality and The Sensually volatile Body15

Summary21

Philosophy of Morality and Religion23

CHAPTER III29

Research Methods29

CHAPTER IV31

Discussion31

CHAPTER V34

Conclusion34

References35

CHAPTER I

Introduction

In the context of a latest renewal of sociological concern in ethics, Levine (1995: 100) recalls us that inquiries in relative to the causes of lesson activity were centered to the base of the discipline. A powerful sense of the secularization of up to date societies amidst sociology's origin numbers only expanded the significance of such inquiries (Nisbet 1993 [1966]: 3-20). In later sociological investigation, although, the concern of what constitutes 'morality', and of what endows humans to bypass portraying solely in periods of 'appetitive or expedient dispositions', became marginal- ized (Levine 1995: 100, 284-97). This marginalization was strengthened by movements in the late tzrentieth 100 years in the direction of the fragmentation of soci- ology; movements which cast question on the very likelihood of generalized conceptions of lesson activity (Horowitz 1993; glimpse furthermore Eisenstadt and Cure- laru 1976; Ossowska 1970; Gouldner 1970). For commentators for example Levine (1995: 2), this position left sociology in hazard of relinquishing the likelihood of proposing any authoritative insights into the environment of human experience. Despite these tendencies, the topic of ethics has been subject to expanded inspection in latest years from sociologists involved in the con- provisional reason of the control and esteem and in the ambivalent feature of (post)modernity (e.g. Selznick 1992; Stivers 1994; Smart 1996).1 One of the most intriguing characteristics of these commentaries is that while their anxiety with such affairs as 'inhumanity' (Lyotard 1991; Tester 1995), 'post- up to date ethics' (Bauman 1993), 'dialogical democracy' (Giddens 1994a), and 'decivilizing processes' (Burkitt 1996) endeavours to proceed after academic sociology, it furthermore comes back sociology to the lesson inquiries which faced its establishment. In this paper, we propose that up to designated day concerns of ethics and modernity can advantage by engaging with one of the most significant 'founding figures' of the control and esteem, Durkheim. Interest in Durkheim's (1995 [1912] ) The Elementary Forms of Religzous Life has developed with the publi- cation of a new version of this work (Smith and Alexander 1996). This is especially important since The Elementary Forms can be glimpsed as the key text in what Collins (1988) mentions to as the 'underground wing' of Durkheim's writings. Despite often being depicted as a positivist, Durkheim evolved a deep anxiety with humanity as a lesson, devout force which stimulated in persons an effervescent 'propulsion' in the direction of activities creative of either communal cohesion or dissolution (Bougle 1926; Caillois 1950; Collins 1988). While acknowledgement of an 'underground wing' of Durkheim's work is not new, the connection between homo duplex, collective effervescence and distinctive types of sociality which resides at its centre continues marginalized inside up to designated day sociology. It is our contention that The Elementary Forms presents a multidimensional set about in the direction of ethics, by comprehending ...