TY - JOUR AU - Kaelber, Lutz PY - 2010/04/26 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Sociology of Religion and Ideology JF - TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology JA - TRAILS VL - IS - SE - DO - UR - https://trails.asanet.org/article/view/sociology-of-religion-and-ideology SP - AB - This course addresses religious belief systems (religions) and their secular counterparts (ideologies) and their institutional arrangements. It focuses on relationships between these systems and the larger social structure, in cross-cultural and historical perspective. As a sociology course, it is concerned with the following questions:•How does religion/ideology influence society and individual or group behavior? •How does society influence religion/ideology?•What role does religion play in modern society? ER -