PEMAKNAAN AGAMA DALAM PERSPEKTIF ANTROPOLOGI-SOSIOLOGI

Abstract

<p>There are many experts of various disciplines provide definition and<br />understanding of religion. Some of them have been revealed in this<br />writing related to anthropology and sociology only. E.B. Taylor was the<br />first who studied and provided minimal definition of religion as a belief<br />to spiritual beings. He said that the origin of religion began when the<br />man was aware of the existence of soul. Frazer believes that the origin of<br />religion began when the man was not able to solve various problems of<br />their lives due to limitation of their reasoning. Whereas Durkheim assumes<br />that religion was a sosial product as a collective thing with the<br />aim to unite the members of society in a moral community. Durkheim<br />emphasizes that nothing is wrong in religion. In reality all religions are<br />right in its own model. This means religion is right based on the religion<br />itself and its adherents. The writer states that the frames to understand<br />religious phenomena are : first, it has supernatural concept; second, it<br />has doctrine and teaching in the holy book, revelation, oral and written<br />sources; third, cosmology that is how this nature is composed following<br />the perception of its followers; fourth, ritual or charity ceremony, and<br />fifth, mediator of religion and religious group.</p>