Does this question make sense (sociology)?

Question

How does do beliefs, the vital element of religion, survive in a society where knowledge is power (Foucault)?

Basically I want to see how religion survives in society, and can come up in almost any debate, or conversation. Is this question appropriate?

Thanks A Dane's Sweetheart.

By the way, to all of you I have no choice, I just wanted you to see whether this question was appropriate for a sociology paper, I am not debating against, I am just discussing.

Answer 1

Because knowledge fails....Human realises that there something more than what he can observe, understand and experiment.
That's where man starts believing God. Belief of God in inherent in human nature, just presense of knowledge can't eliminate belief in God

Answer 2

Belief is important in any capacity. Not just religion. The key to your car for example. If you have a new key made for your car, you don't quite trust it until you see it turn the switch and start the car. After that, you believe that the key will work every time, that's confidence in that belief. That's the difference between faith and belief.

A Christian will begin tenuously, but after growing in their beliefs, or what they are taught is true, they begin to behave with more confidence. That's an example of growing in the 'faith'.

In this case it is knowledge. We find that our arguements, if soundly based in scripture, DO have substance, and our love for the scriptures and God grows because He gave them to us in the way that He did.

So yes, knowledge IS power. It's just that people do not expect a Christian to apply the Christian principles and be able to operate efficiently.

That's what I think that you are alluding to. As if you were asking, " Can a Christian survive in society and not just keel over in shame because what they believe is hollow?"

They do it everyday in man circumstances. And it is not hollow, as I think that I have just showed you.

Yes. It is appropriate, though insulting.

Answer 3

Foucault also notes that there is a syncretism of religion and science in the concept of mythological constructs as explanatory vehicles. That science isn't simply based on theory (a form of belief) but on scientific models (another form of belief). To the sociologist, religion and science both attempt to apprehend attributes of monadological holonics.

Religion, as a holonizing construct, will always be integral to society, both in the ethological and noetic sense.

Answer 4

"How do beliefs, the vital element of religion, survive in a society where knowledge is power?" is an appropriate question.

Answer 5

The topic of religion is never appropriate in polite conversation. Religion is a belief system for all of us, in one way or manner. If you're debating religious peers, it's one thing, and probably educational and productive. To engage the topic over dinner with friends or associates is to solicit harsh feelings. Most people consider their beliefs to be private and do not like them challenged.

Answer 6

Yes it make very clear sense and also invite to someone that what he has sense ,
As understand you want to ask to survival of religion in contras of knowledge and belief is it? Ok first let me clear about knowledge and belief
Knowledge such as know how, know why, know that, and the like. It comes from experience, observation , through your feeling and evidences
Believe just hold it as truth without any logic or proof .
Its very long discussed I just concise here and as your questione “religion survives in society”
Just think through above prospective and see example of Abraham (pbuh) he knew very well that fire burn it means he has knowledge about fire but they had a believe that fire will not harmful for him
It was an enormous fire with which they planned to burn the Friend of God. It seemed hopeless for our Master. Yet, when he was thrown into the fire, our Lord said: O fire! Be thou cool, and [a source of] inner peace for Abraham! (21:69) And Abraham (pbuh) was saved. The end was for those who were conscious of God.
I think above will help and hope it will near with your asking………..good day!

Answer 7

Sometimes sociology uncovers facts that run counter to common sense. For example, "common sense" says that sex ed will encourage teenagers to have sex, but sociological studies show that teens who have had sex ed classes tend to wait until they're older to have sex, and are more likely to practice safer sex (i.e. condoms, etc.). This is just one example of how an issue looks one way on the surface (common sense) and another way when you study it objectively (sociology). There are tons more examples like this.

Answer 8

Yes appropriate for a sociology paper - how science and religion co-exist in society and how they influence and complement each other as well as in some instances are mutually exclusive.

Answer 9

Knowledge is power. Knowledge is based on verifiable fact.
Religion is based on faith.
There is no litmus test for faith. And yet it survives throughout the ages.
From running away from thunder (the gods are angry) to sacrificing people, to salary sacrificing.
How can you measure a man's faith?
To do that, you would have to be God.

Answer 10

Death. As soon as we invent a way of not dying anymore, religion will cease to exist. But as long as we keep dying, there will always be that unknown factor of what, if anything happens after death. Religion began as a way of providing answers to questions that we had no way of knowing. But it became a vicious monster with a will of its own and so began the tyranny of organized religion.