Religion And Society: Religion's Impact On Society

Religion’s Impact on Society Religion is the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God or gods. While not every religious person practices their faith in a church, there are still various different ways to approach the idea of religion. No matter where you live on this earth, it is guaranteed whether it is in a small town, city, rural area, and villages, in North America, Europe, Asia or the other 5 continents, there will be at least one church near you. Churches are everywhere, bringing churchgoers answers, hope, faith, and social events for the community within. In 2007, there was a census done, which shows the percent of Americans who are affiliated with faith. There was about seventy-eight point

The amount of Christian followers went down by seven point eight percent, leaving only seventy point six percent of Americans believing in a Christian based faith. The unaffiliated group of Americans raised by six point seven percent. After looking into multiple factors, multiple questions rose to the surface. Can we pinpoint why the amount of Christian believers changes? If religion is all around us, how does it affect American culture and society? How is religion spread, is it through the means of the religious scriptures such as the bible, Qur’an or The Hebrew Bible, internet, verbal, or passed down from the family members’ beliefs? Can we use statistics to show the impact

This study shows how humans have adapted to environments, as well as communicates and socializes with one another humans (What is Anthropology?). Due to Anthropology being an umbrella term that covers to two subdivisions, biological and social, we should look at this field of study as a tree, the main idea of anthropology being the study of humans is the base, the roots, and the trunk of the tree, from there the biological aspect would be one of the main branches that contains little branches that reach off into genetics, evolution, physiology, and nutritional history. The next large branch would be the social viewpoint is more toward languages, culture, politics, family and religion. (What is Anthropology?) There is a branch from the social anthropology called the anthropology of religion. Anthropology of religion is the study of religion, in relation to other social institutions of comparison of religious beliefs and practices across cultures. Due to the fact that social anthropology and anthropology of religion is all about how humans use religion and what they believe in this field of study can help show how religion has an effect on America’s culture and society as a