The Relationship Connecting the Sociology of Religion and...

Berger provides insight into the study of the sociology of religion. Berger is particularly interested in the social construction of religion as perpetuated by humankind and the dichotomies of the secular and the religious. As a component of social reality, religion, according to Peter Berger, is a â€Å"dialectical phenomenon† (3). Society is a dialectic phenomenon in that it is a human product, and nothing but a human product, that yet continuously acts back upon its producer. Society is a product of man. Religion emerges out of human beings as part of an ordered and meaningful social reality and in turn, humans emerge out of this socially constructed world. Berger parses the dialectical phenomenon into three concepts: externalization,†¦show more content†¦The ordered structure of culture becomes the ordered structure of individual human consciousness. The languages, values, meanings, and institutions of society become the languages, values, meanings, and institutio ns of the individual person. Through internalization, humans become a product of society. By the ordering of experience, humanity imposes nomos, or meaningful order, upon the social world by both objective by institutions and subjective by consciousness constructs. When this nomos is instinctually assumed either cosmologically or anthropologically â€Å"it is endowed with a stability deriving from more powerful sources that the historical efforts of human beings† (25). Humans have a need for and impose nomos on their existence or reality. Without nomos people would perceive reality to be anomic; it would lack order and meaning; it would be utter chaos. A central function of religion is to protect the individual from anomy; religion makes reality ordered and understandable. Here religion enters the social world as a human enterprise by which a sacred world is established. 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