Charles Wright Mills on the Role of Religion as a Dependent Variable

„As a social and as a personal force, religion has become a dependent variable. It does not originate; it reacts. It does not denounce; it adapts. It does not set forth new models of conduct and sensibility; it imitates. Its rhetoric is without deep appeal; the worship it organizes is without piety. It has become less a revitalization of the spirit in permanent tension with the world than a respectable distraction from the sourness of life.“

Charles Wright MillsCharles Wright Mills analyzes religion as a reactive social force lacking its own renewal of the spirit.
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Charles Wright Mills was an American sociologist who examined modern societies and the role of intellectuals.

Critical reflection on religion's role as a reactive and adapted social force.


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Charles Wright Mills (1916–1962) was an American sociologist. His work examined postwar societies and the interaction of political, military, and economic elites. His best-known works include “The Power Elite,” “White Collar: The American Middle Classes,” and “The Sociological Imagination.”

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