Thorstein Veblen: The Theory Of The Leisure Class: Chapter 11: The Beliefin Luck
Finally, there are those who reject the worth of other religious beliefs or feel that other religions are a threat to the integrity of “Christian” society. This can manifest in the range of damaging individual responses to Muslim ladies who wear a hijab or headscarf for instance. In his structural-functional analysis of religion, Durkheim outlined three functions that religion still serves in society, which assist to explain its ongoing existence in contemporary societies. As an alternative, Chidester would accept Durkheim’s…