Karl Marx defined it as the "sigh of the oppressed creature.
Aspects of this concept were classed as "historical" and "para-historical" by Ninian Smart, who included a "narrative dimension" and "material dimension" among his seven dimensions of this concept. Clifford Geertz claimed that it clothed its conceptions of order with "an aura of factuality" in an article about it "as a cultural system." Robert Bellah discussed the "civil" variety of this concept in America. Karl Marx defined it as the "sigh of the oppressed creature." Its primary purpose was identified as the emotional unification of society by Emile Durkheim, while James George Frazer claimed it was the stage between magic and science. Durkheim wrote about the "Elementary Forms" of, for 10 points, which type of "Life", a concept exemplified by Islam or Christianity?
Aspects of this concept were classed as "historical" and "para-historical" by Ninian Smart, who included a "narrative dimension" and "material dimension" among his seven dimensions of this concept.
religion [accept word forms; accept "civil religion" or "civic religion" or "American religion" or "religious life"]