WHAT IS THE SOCIOLOGY OF RELIGION? The human capacity for belief is virtually limitless. It is this capacity, and the striking diversity, indeed strangeness, of the beliefs and associated practices it has generated in human society and history which have stimulated the curiosity of many writers on religion including sociologists. There are those, some sociologists among them, who might agree with Lucy in the Peanuts cartoon reproduced opposite, at least as far as certain fundamentals are concerned. However, Charlie Brown�s answer, despite the dubious authenticity of the reference to Melanesian frog worship, makes it plain that if religions are all alike, they are also very different. Even if frogs are not worshipped anywhere, there are many other beliefs which seem equally odd, even bizarre, to the outsider. The sociologist, however, is not simply puzzled by this diversity but by the fact that such beliefs and practices exist at all. The sociology of religion can be said to consist of two main themes or central questions, namely, why have religious beliefs and practices ....

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