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What functions does religion perform in a pluralistic society?

  • UPSC 2023
  • Religion and Society

Émile Durkheim (The Elementary Forms of Religious Life, 1912) saw religion as the cement of a single moral community. A pluralistic society has many such communities under one state, so religion's functions work at two levels: within each community and across communities. Peter L. Berger (The Many Altars of Modernity, 2014) argued that the modern…

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