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Write short note: Religious and scientific world views.

  • UPSC 1983
  • Religion and Society

A world view is a shared framework for explaining reality and guiding action. The religious world view interprets the world through the sacred and the supernatural; the scientific world view interprets it through natural causes established by observation and testing. Classical sociology first set them in succession, then in coexistence.

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