Discuss in detail Emile Durkheim idea …

Durkheim's perspective on religion: • He has defined it as a 'unified system of beliefs and practices related to sacred things that is things set apart and forbidden beliefs and practices which unite one single moral community called a church. • According to Durkheim in every religion a distinction is made between sacred and profane • Sacred things include an element of supernatural. • Profane things are kept at distance from sacred and are considered away from religion

Max Weber's perspective on religion: • He started his theory of religion in his book entitled " The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism” • Calvinism (protestants) exerted an important influence on the emergence and growth of capitalism characterized to earn money and to re-invest profit as a mode of economic organization. • The Calvinist believed that the world was created for the glory of god that any work in this world has to be done for his glory, making even mundane work's acts of glory. • Calvinist also believed in the concept of pre destination which meant whether one will go to heaven or hell was pre ordained. • The money earned was not to be used for worldly consumption rather the ethics of calvinism was to live frugally.