Beliefs in Society Crossword Puzzle

QUESTIONS LIST:

• science: a belief system that claims a monopoly of truth and is often linked to science.
• order: the idea that religion acts as a conservative force and maintains the status quo.
• civil religion: a secular belief system with characteristics similar to religion.
• opium: marxist term for religion masking exploitation.
• durkheim: theorist who saw religion as a source of social solidarity.
• secularization: the decline in religious influence over society.
• rationalization: the process by which religious ideas lose social significance.
• sect: a small, exclusive religious group that demands total commitment.
• denomination: a type of religious organization more inclusive than a sect but not as established as a church.
• post modernity: term used to describe the growth of spiritual shopping and pick-and-mix belief systems.
• malinowski: functionalist who argued that religion helps cope with life crises.
• disenchantment: weber’s term for the process of rationalization that leads to the "disenchantment" of the world
• male dominated: feminist view that religion is a patriarchal institution.
• spirituality: growth of new types of religion such as new age movements.
• scientism: belief that science can explain everything and solve all problems.