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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

State the reasons for the various religious beliefs and practices in pre-modern societies.

  • UPSC 2020
  • Religion and Society

In pre-modern societies, small, kin-based and technologically simple, religion was not a separate sphere but was fused with kinship, economy and politics. Scholars explain its many beliefs and practices by the needs they met: intellectual, emotional, social, moral and ecological.

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  • 1. To explain the world
  • 2. To cope with uncertainty and crisis
  • 3. To integrate the group
  • 4. To regulate conduct and authority
  • 5. To regulate nature
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