Does religion always help the poor? Variations in religion and social class in the west and societies in the global south
From Marx’s famous dictum that religion is “the opium of the people” to Weber’s recognition of the dignity reaped by the “religiously musical,” disagreement about both the prosocial and deleterious—even violent—effects of religious beliefs and practices has been a long discussion in social theory. T...
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Palgrave Macmillan Ltd.
2018
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