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Durkheim called shared moral beliefs and values the collective conscience."}]},{"id":"a2d1649b-b85d-4119-9ee9-84b154139da4","cardType":"basic","points":1,"front":"According to Durkheim, what are people really worshipping through sacred symbols?","back":"They are worshipping society itself.","mcqOptions":[{"text":"They are worshipping society itself.","correct":true,"explanation":"Durkheim argued that sacred symbols represent the social group and its collective power, so worshipping them is effectively worshipping society itself."},{"text":"They are worshipping a supernatural deity.","correct":false,"explanation":"Believers may understand worship in this way, but Durkheim's sociological interpretation was that sacred symbols represent society, so people are worshipping society itself."},{"text":"They are worshipping their individual conscience.","correct":false,"explanation":"Durkheim emphasised collective social forces rather than private individual morality. Sacred symbols represent the group, meaning people are effectively worshipping society itself."},{"text":"They are worshipping the natural environment.","correct":false,"explanation":"Even when sacred symbols use animals or natural objects, Durkheim argued that they represent the social group. People are therefore worshipping society itself."}]},{"id":"e095e7d3-a0ac-40a3-abbe-45754d1bc190","cardType":"cloze","points":null,"front":"For Durkheim, the [ ] is special and set apart; the [ ] is ordinary everyday life.","back":"For Durkheim, the sacred is special and set apart; the profane is ordinary everyday life.","mcqOptions":[{"text":"For Durkheim, the sacred is special and set apart; the profane is ordinary everyday life.","correct":true,"explanation":"Durkheim divided experience into the sacred, which is treated as special and set apart, and the profane, which concerns ordinary everyday life."},{"text":"For Durkheim, the profane is special and set apart; the sacred is ordinary everyday life.","correct":false,"explanation":"This reverses Durkheim's distinction. The sacred is special and set apart, while the profane consists of ordinary objects and everyday activities."},{"text":"For Durkheim, the ritual is special and set apart; the profane is ordinary everyday life.","correct":false,"explanation":"A ritual is an action associated with worship, not Durkheim's category for special things. The sacred is set apart, while the profane is ordinary."},{"text":"For Durkheim, the sacred is special and set apart; the collective conscience is ordinary everyday life.","correct":false,"explanation":"The collective conscience means society's shared moral beliefs and values, not everyday life. Durkheim used the profane for the ordinary, contrasting it with the sacred."}]},{"id":"5aada0f4-008c-4233-b256-59d23d7e8df3","cardType":"basic","points":2,"front":"How does Malinowski explain religion’s role in life crises?","back":"It helps people cope with uncertainty.","mcqOptions":[{"text":"It helps people cope with uncertainty.","correct":true,"explanation":"Malinowski argued that religion provides emotional reassurance when outcomes are unpredictable, especially during life crises such as death, illness or other distressing events."},{"text":"It helps people reject established traditions.","correct":false,"explanation":"Rejecting tradition is associated with social change, not Malinowski’s explanation of life crises. He argued that religion helps people cope emotionally with uncertainty."},{"text":"It helps people eliminate social inequality.","correct":false,"explanation":"Eliminating inequality concerns conflict theories and religious social movements, rather than Malinowski’s functionalism. He saw religion as helping individuals cope with uncertainty."},{"text":"It helps people avoid collective rituals.","correct":false,"explanation":"Malinowski did not argue that people avoid rituals; rituals often provide reassurance during crises. 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In reality, rituals may mean different things to different social groups."},{"text":"Rituals may prevent all conflict in a diverse society.","correct":false,"explanation":"Functionalists may emphasise integration, but rituals cannot prevent all conflict. Their meanings vary between groups, so religion does not necessarily produce complete social consensus."},{"text":"Rituals may have one meaning in a diverse society.","correct":false,"explanation":"Treating rituals as having one fixed meaning overlooks cultural and religious diversity. Functionalism may overstate consensus because different groups interpret rituals in different ways."}]},{"id":"222edbe2-6340-46fd-b1aa-13a5b518a993","cardType":"basic","points":2,"front":"How can religion operate as ideology for Marxists?","back":"It justifies the existing social order.","mcqOptions":[{"text":"It justifies the existing social order.","correct":true,"explanation":"Marxists argue that religion presents unequal social arrangements as natural, deserved or divinely ordained. It therefore legitimates the existing social order and discourages resistance."},{"text":"It removes the existing class divisions.","correct":false,"explanation":"Removing class divisions would challenge capitalism rather than support its ideology. Marxists usually argue that religion justifies the existing social order and its inequalities."},{"text":"It encourages permanent social revolution.","correct":false,"explanation":"Although some religious movements support change, traditional Marxism sees religion as discouraging revolution. It operates ideologically by justifying the existing social order."},{"text":"It exposes the ruling class’s interests.","correct":false,"explanation":"Exposing ruling-class interests would reveal ideology rather than reproduce it. Marxists argue that religion can conceal exploitation by justifying the existing social order."}]},{"id":"a9b131cf-8c68-448a-a43c-75edfeb65cea","cardType":"cloze","points":null,"front":"Marx’s "opium of the people" means religion can comfort oppressed people while [ ].","back":"Marx’s "opium of the people" means religion can comfort oppressed people while distracting them from suffering’s real causes.","mcqOptions":[{"text":"distracting them from suffering’s real causes","correct":true,"explanation":"Marx compared religion to opium because it eases the pain of oppression while directing attention away from capitalism and class exploitation, the real causes of suffering."},{"text":"revealing to them suffering’s real causes","correct":false,"explanation":"This reverses Marx’s argument: religion generally conceals rather than reveals class exploitation. It comforts oppressed people while distracting them from suffering’s real causes."},{"text":"encouraging them to overthrow capitalism","correct":false,"explanation":"This confuses Marx’s revolutionary aims with his view of religion. He argued that religious comfort can discourage resistance by distracting people from suffering’s real causes."},{"text":"abolishing the class system entirely","correct":false,"explanation":"Marx believed class abolition required revolutionary social change, not religious consolation. Religion acts like opium when it distracts oppressed people from suffering’s real causes."}]},{"id":"7578d5ca-1d84-4fb7-9293-af94cb6cd885","cardType":"basic","points":2,"front":"How can afterlife promises affect acceptance of inequality?","back":"They may encourage people to accept poverty or inequality.","mcqOptions":[{"text":"They may encourage people to accept poverty or inequality.","correct":true,"explanation":"Promises of happiness or reward after death can make present suffering appear temporary or meaningful, encouraging disadvantaged people to accept poverty or inequality."},{"text":"They may encourage people to demand immediate economic equality.","correct":false,"explanation":"This reverses the traditional Marxist criticism. Promised rewards in the afterlife may postpone demands for change and encourage people to accept poverty or inequality."},{"text":"They may encourage people to reject all religious authority.","correct":false,"explanation":"Afterlife promises normally depend upon religious teachings and authority rather than encouraging their rejection. Marxists argue that they may promote acceptance of poverty or inequality."},{"text":"They may encourage people to abolish class differences themselves.","correct":false,"explanation":"This mistakes religious consolation for revolutionary action. Afterlife promises can shift attention away from changing society and encourage acceptance of poverty or inequality."}]},{"id":"fd3378ee-5197-43f7-9ae9-c7f270c72fab","cardType":"basic","points":1,"front":"Which movement shows Christianity can criticise poverty and oppression?","back":"Liberation theology.","mcqOptions":[{"text":"Liberation theology.","correct":true,"explanation":"Liberation theology, especially in Latin America, interprets Christianity as supporting the poor and challenging oppressive political and economic structures rather than simply legitimating them."},{"text":"Religious fundamentalism.","correct":false,"explanation":"Fundamentalism stresses strict adherence to traditional beliefs and is not the movement specifically associated with Christian opposition to poverty. The relevant movement is liberation theology."},{"text":"Calvinist predestination.","correct":false,"explanation":"Calvinist predestination concerns salvation and God’s prior choice, not a movement challenging oppression and poverty. Liberation theology provides the relevant example."},{"text":"New Age spirituality.","correct":false,"explanation":"New Age spirituality focuses largely on individual spiritual development rather than a specifically Christian struggle against structural oppression. The movement described is liberation theology."}]},{"id":"48e02d81-cb54-4db5-bc77-094e248e9621","cardType":"cloze","points":null,"front":"The feminist term for male dominance in society is [ ].","back":"The feminist term for male dominance in society is patriarchy.","mcqOptions":[{"text":"patriarchy","correct":true,"explanation":"Patriarchy describes a social system in which men hold dominant positions of power and authority, including within religious organisations, teachings and practices."},{"text":"matriarchy","correct":false,"explanation":"Matriarchy refers to female dominance or leadership, so it reverses the relationship in the question. The feminist term for male dominance is patriarchy."},{"text":"egalitarianism","correct":false,"explanation":"Egalitarianism means support for equality, not a system of male dominance. Feminists use patriarchy to describe society’s unequal concentration of power among men."},{"text":"meritocracy","correct":false,"explanation":"Meritocracy describes a system where rewards are supposedly based on ability and effort, not male dominance. 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Feminists are concerned that religious leadership has often been male rather than equally shared."},{"text":"Religious leadership has often been child-led.","correct":false,"explanation":"Age is not the central feminist concern in this historical pattern. Feminists focus on the fact that religious leadership has often been male."}]},{"id":"a36867d6-ce5f-437c-9081-00a72b5b96d1","cardType":"basic","points":2,"front":"How does Linda Woodhead challenge the view that religion only oppresses women?","back":"Religion can give women identity, community and authority.","mcqOptions":[{"text":"Religion can give women identity, community and authority.","correct":true,"explanation":"Woodhead argues that religion is not uniformly patriarchal: religious participation can provide women with a valued identity, supportive relationships and positions of recognised authority."},{"text":"Religion inevitably removes women’s autonomy, solidarity and influence.","correct":false,"explanation":"Treating religion as inevitably removing women’s autonomy repeats the oppression thesis that Woodhead challenges. She argues that religion can provide women with identity, community and authority."},{"text":"Religion can give women privacy, isolation and dependence.","correct":false,"explanation":"Woodhead does not claim that religion benefits women by separating them from collective life. Her argument emphasises the identity, community and authority women may gain through religion."},{"text":"Religion only gives men status, solidarity and leadership.","correct":false,"explanation":"The view that religion merely reinforces male control overlooks women’s agency within religious settings. Woodhead highlights the identity, community and authority religion can offer women."}]},{"id":"6a377c84-17a7-45b6-9097-055f3bdc12a1","cardType":"cloze","points":null,"front":"In Weber’s The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Calvinist beliefs helped encourage the growth of [ ].","back":"In Weber’s The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Calvinist beliefs helped encourage the growth of modern capitalism.","mcqOptions":[{"text":"modern capitalism","correct":true,"explanation":"Weber argued that Calvinist discipline, hard work and reinvestment had an elective affinity with the rational pursuit of profit associated with modern capitalism."},{"text":"medieval feudalism","correct":false,"explanation":"Medieval feudalism preceded Calvinism and was based primarily on inherited landholding and obligations. Weber linked Calvinist beliefs to the development of modern capitalism."},{"text":"industrial socialism","correct":false,"explanation":"Industrial socialism stresses collective ownership rather than the disciplined private accumulation and reinvestment of profit. Weber connected Calvinist beliefs with modern capitalism."},{"text":"state communism","correct":false,"explanation":"State communism seeks to abolish private capital, whereas Weber argued that Calvinist values encouraged disciplined work, saving and reinvestment, helping modern capitalism grow."}]},{"id":"ab17959a-3a40-45b3-af30-4274c0bfcf74","cardType":"basic","points":2,"front":"Why is Weber’s idea of elective affinity important?","back":"It shows a close fit between religious values and economic behaviour.","mcqOptions":[{"text":"It shows a close fit between religious values and economic behaviour.","correct":true,"explanation":"Elective affinity describes a mutual compatibility rather than simple causation: Calvinist religious values closely fitted the disciplined work and reinvestment associated with capitalist economic behaviour."},{"text":"It shows a complete conflict between religious values and economic behaviour.","correct":false,"explanation":"Weber did not argue that religious values and economic behaviour were completely opposed. 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Elective affinity identifies a meaningful close fit between Calvinist values and capitalist behaviour."}]},{"id":"ada8639f-aac3-4d4a-b0ae-6a1f86cedc23","cardType":"basic","points":1,"front":"What does a theodicy help people make sense of?","back":"Suffering or injustice.","mcqOptions":[{"text":"Suffering or injustice.","correct":true,"explanation":"A theodicy supplies a religious explanation that reconciles suffering or injustice with belief in a powerful, loving and morally good God."},{"text":"Scientific change.","correct":false,"explanation":"Scientific change may challenge religious belief, but explaining it is not the specific function of a theodicy. A theodicy makes sense of suffering or injustice."},{"text":"Religious conversion.","correct":false,"explanation":"Religious conversion concerns adopting or changing faith, not reconciling hardship with belief in God. A theodicy provides an explanation for suffering or injustice."},{"text":"Secularisation or pluralism.","correct":false,"explanation":"Secularisation and pluralism concern changes in religion’s social position and diversity. 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It therefore supports the claim that traditional religious identity is declining."},{"text":"Traditional religious identity is remaining stable.","correct":false,"explanation":"The trend cannot support the claim that religious identity is unchanged because the proportion explicitly rejecting a religious label is rising. Traditional religious identity is declining."},{"text":"Traditional religious identity is becoming stricter.","correct":false,"explanation":"Selecting "No religion" measures religious identification rather than increased doctrinal strictness. Its rise supports the secularisation claim that traditional religious identity is declining."}]},{"id":"a30f712d-fa45-4e2f-b9bd-9ede4314d637","cardType":"basic","points":1,"front":"What trend does Davie’s "believing without belonging" identify?","back":"People may believe without regular religious attendance.","mcqOptions":[{"text":"People may believe without regular religious attendance.","correct":true,"explanation":"Davie argues that institutional participation can decline without belief disappearing: individuals may retain religious beliefs while rarely attending churches or other religious organisations."},{"text":"People may attend without holding religious beliefs.","correct":false,"explanation":"Attending while lacking belief reverses Davie’s phrase. "Believing without belonging" describes people retaining religious belief without regular religious attendance."},{"text":"People may believe without questioning religious teachings.","correct":false,"explanation":"Strict doctrinal obedience is not what Davie identifies. Her concept describes continued personal belief despite the absence of regular attendance or institutional belonging."},{"text":"People may believe without practising private worship.","correct":false,"explanation":"Private worship is still a form of religious practice and is not the trend named by Davie. She specifically highlights belief without regular institutional attendance."}]},{"id":"a1ba3f46-6d28-451b-ae51-4b6db113cd83","cardType":"basic","points":1,"front":"In Davie’s vicarious religion, who performs rituals for whom?","back":"A small religious minority performs rituals for a wider population.","mcqOptions":[{"text":"A small religious minority performs rituals for a wider population.","correct":true,"explanation":"Davie argues that an active religious minority maintains rituals and institutions on behalf of a much larger population that may use them only occasionally."},{"text":"A large religious majority performs rituals for a small population.","correct":false,"explanation":"This reverses Davie’s relationship. 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Davie’s concept involves a small minority acting for a wider population."}]},{"id":"0b02863f-126b-4f6c-ab9a-2f7c3c812d42","cardType":"basic","points":1,"front":"In Hervieu-Léger’s view, what do "spiritual shoppers" do?","back":"They select beliefs and practices that fit their lives.","mcqOptions":[{"text":"They select beliefs and practices that fit their lives.","correct":true,"explanation":"Hervieu-Léger argues that weakening inherited religious identities allows individuals to construct personalised belief systems by choosing religious ideas and practices suited to their circumstances."},{"text":"They inherit beliefs and practices that governed their ancestors.","correct":false,"explanation":"Automatically accepting inherited traditions is the opposite of spiritual shopping. 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