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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Write short note on Positive Religion.

  • UPSC 2010
  • Religion and Society

In sociology, positive religion refers chiefly to Auguste Comte's Religion of Humanity, the secular faith he designed for a society that, in his view, had outgrown theology. It marks the point where the founder of positivism concluded that science alone could give knowledge but not moral unity.

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