Margaret Rivera
Religion in the Changing Times
Religion is established and grown stronger and stronger
by families and certain cultures that help build a specific it. Religion establishes for some groups a social
cohesion, purpose and control which in simpler terms means that people use
religion for many different reason that they believe help them grow as a person
and as a group. Individuals will come together and celebrate and rejoice over
their religion while igniting new relationships between people that also feel
the same as they do about their religion. At the same time there are many
different versions of religions and sometimes the cultural differences are
drastic within religions. With different religions we also talked in class
about the different types of groups of religions including churches, sects and
cults. All have different purposes as a church is well integrated into a larger
society a sect is apart from the larger society sticking to mainly smaller
groups or societies and a cult that is untraditional and sometimes unaccepted
by other societies. Together these, along with many other religions, create a
diverse and well sustained amount of people that believe and follow some type
of religion.
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The picture above
illustrates and correlates to the many different religions that are around us
and how none are the same but all are created for the same purchase, which is
to fulfill the needs of people, by creating good environments for people to
broaden their horizons and meet new people.
With the entering of a
new era we are beginning to see the new generation of people begin to take hold
of the communities around them. That begins the impact on religion and this new
generation, the generations before us are much consumed into religion because
that is what they have always grown up around, however this new group has
consumed themselves in electronics and less on religion. As said by US news “The
majority of American teens believe in God and worship in conventional
congregations but their religious knowledge is remarkably shallow.” We see and grasp that this age teens are not
fully immersing themselves in religion as ancestors had. So we begin to
decipher if religions will be as pursued as they were years ago because as said
by Carol Lytch from religion-online “We have known for years that parents are
key influences on teens religious lives.” So does that mean as this generation grows
up and no longer has the religious push from parents will religion and worship
begin to diminish. With sociological studies we will begin to understand and
see the change in religion as the new age comes to terms with it and we will
see whether it will increase or begin to diminish.
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