Part II of the discussion board for the chapter should include answers to any of the discussion prompts you chose to respond to. Answers must be substantive in and utilize the text to supplement the information to address the question.
1. How does this article (Links to an external site.) speak to the shifting role of religion in everyday life? Are these sorts of “cottage industries” inevitable?
2. Is religion still an important part of life in America (Links to an external site.)?
3. Sociologists of religion look at both how religion shapes the broader culture and the sociological aspects of individual religions. When the Catholic Church recently elected a new pope, there were rituals that the Church followed. The election of the new pope was also seen as changing the culture of the Church.
Based on this article (Links to an external site.), how can we see the election of the pope as both reinforcing the traditions of the church and changing them?
