Religion and Society

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  1. How does a multicultural society accommodate diversities of all kinds- ethnic, linguistic and religious? Discuss its major challenges. (2024)
  2. How do you understand the phenomena of the mushrooming of sects and cults in contemporary society? Discuss the factors responsible for the trend. (2024)
  3. Discuss the concept of animism and differentiate it from naturism. (2024)
  4. Do modernization and secularization necessarily go together? Give your views.(2024)
  5. What is Taylorism? Analyze its merits and demerits. (2023)
  6. What are new religious movements? Elaborate emphasizing their forms and orientations(2023)
  7. Highlight the differences and similarities between totemism and animism. (2023)
  8. What functions does religion perform in a pluralistic society? (2023)
  9. Write a note on global trends of secularization. (2022)
  10. How do-little tradition and great tradition coexist in contemporary Indian society? (2022)
  11. Critically compare the views of E.B. Tylor and Max Muller on Religion. (2021)
  12. What is cult? Explain the growth of cults in the contemporary world. (2021)
  13. Give your comments on the growth of religious revivalism in the present-day context.  (2021
  14. State the reasons for the various religious beliefs and practices in pre-modern societies. (2020)
  15. Are all world religious patriarchal Substantiate your answer with examples? (2019)
  16. What are sects? Discuss the role in multi-religious societies with empirical examples. (2018)
  17. Discuss the challenges thrown by religious revivalism to a secular nation- state. (2018)
  18. Give an assessment of Durkheimian notion of ‘sacred’ and ‘profane’ in sociology of religion. (2017)
  19. Problematise the concept of secularism in the present context. (2017)
  20. Elaborate on various types of religious practices prevalent in Indian society. (2017)
  21. Is religion playing an important role in increasing fundamentalism ? Give reasons for your answer. (2016)
  22. How is Durkheim’s theory of religion different from Max Weber’s theory of religion ? (2016)
  23. “Religious pluralism is the order of present-day societies.” Explain by giving suitable examples. (2016)
  24. Distinguish between sects and cults with illustrations. (2015)
  25. Define Secularisation. What are its major dimensions in the modern world ? (2015)
  26. How is religious revivalism different from communalism ? Elaborate with suitable examples from the Indian context. (2014)
  27. “Science has empirical means to logical ends and religion has non-empirical means to logical ends.” – Comment. (150 words) (2013)
  28. Is religion antithetical to science ? Comment. (2013)
  29. Discuss the factors leading to growing religious revivalism in the contemporary world. (2012)
  30. Write short note on Cultural Pluralism from a sociological perspective (in about 150 words) (2011)
  31. Define sect, cult and religion. In what way do Weber’s views on religion differ from those of Durkheim ? (2011)
  32. Examine the social dimensions of religious revivalism and fundamentalism in the context of globalisation. (2010)
  33. Write short note on Positive Religion. (2010)
  34. “Science has empirical means to logical ends and religion has non – empirical means to logical ends.” Comment (2010)
  35. “Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.” Comment on this statement critically in the light of emerging sociological contexts in Europe, USA and India. (2009)
  36. Write short note on Secularization of societies in the modern world. (2009)
  37. In what important ways can religion be a force both for social stability and social change ? Discuss. (2008)
  38. Write short note : Religion and Science. (2006)
  39. Write short note : Origins of religious beliefs and practices in premodern societies. (2005)
  40. Examine the functional as well as dysfunctional aspects of religion in a pluralistic society taking India and the United States of America as illustrative models. (2004)
  41. Write short note : Religion and Science. (2001)
  42. Critically examine functional and dysfunctional aspects of religion. (2000)
  43. Elaborate on the social necessity of religion. Discuss the relationship between religion and science. (1999)
  44. Write short note : Religious pluralism.  (1998)
  45. Write short note : Fundamentals of religion. (1997)
  46. What is happening to religion in the face of challenges of science in modern societies ? Elaborate your answer with the help of sociological literature. (1992)
  47. “Religion is said to have emancipated human beings on the one hand but it also alienates them on the other’. Bring out the paradoxical functions religion plays in a modern secular society. (1990)
  48. Discuss the role of religion in the world today. Has the supergrowth of science any de- mystifying effect on religion ? (1986)
  49. Write short note : Religion and Society. (1985)
  50. Write short note : Religious factor in economic development. (1984)
  51. Write short note : Religious and scientific world views. (1983)
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