RELIGION AND MATERIAL DEVELOPMENT
Keywords:
Religion, Material Development, Protestant Ethic, Capitalism, Hinduism, Catholic Church, Church, KeralaAbstract
Relationship between religion and society has widely been recognized today. Though religion is a coherent system concerning the supernatural,this system has serious implications for the behaviour and welfare of its adherents.' It has an ideological and a social dimension. Recognizing and emphasizing the social character of religion Emile Durkheim identified the source of the "sacred" in the group or society itself.2 The worship of God was seen by Durkheim as the disguised worship of the society, the great entity upon which the individual depended.
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