SECULAR SUBSTITUTES FOR RELIGION IN THE MODERN WORLD
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.54561/prj0101003rKeywords:
sociology of religion, religious substitutes, communism and religion, religion in Western politics, religions without GodAbstract
This article seeks to consider the ways in which substitutes for religion have been found both through a discussion of the treatment of religion in the classical sociological theories of Weber, Durkheim and Marx and then the way in which in modern societies alternative sets of belief and practices which fulfi l the same function as religion have been developed in the Communist and the post-Communist and Western worlds. Key words: Sociology of Religion.
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