Brave New Role Of Religion

In his view it serves psychological functions for individuals helping them cope with emotional stress that would undermine social solidarity. He argues that death is the main reason for religious beliefs and identifies two types of situations: where the outcome is important but uncontrollable and thus uncertain and at times of life crises events such as birth, death etc. religion helps to minimise disruption.

Society in all cultures share a common trait: Religion. Studying religion in any society reveals many of their traits and explains the actions of the individual. For example, Jewish people live their lives according to what was written in the Talmud and the Torah. They respect the Sabbath and also eat Kosher meat. Even when looking at Huxley's A Brave New World, analyzing religion still helps us understand the actions of the societies and characters within the book.

American physicist and Nobel Prize recipient Steve Weinberg once claimed that “ for good people to do evil things, it takes religion”. However, the culprit isn’t the mere term and message behind religion, but the institutions that tug the puppet strings of it’s meaning and impact. Secular “religious” institutions have proven time and time again that an idea as controversial as religion can be used for a wide spectrum of uses, and unfortunately, Fordism in Brave New World falls under the corrupt end of the spectrum. In this novel, the author Aldous Huxley uses Fordism and its purpose to mirror the modern day secular institution trend in religious communities to illustrate how lack of religion and spirituality can give way to a sovereignty of

Faith, defined as a strong belief in something which cannot be proven, has been argued over countless generations. Still, even without proof, individuals worldwide hold true to their faith each day. After studying faith and religion in texts written by scholars with varying backgrounds, it is easy to see faith is something which is widely disputed. Comparison of Sigmund Freud’s The Future of an Illusion and Paul Tillich’s Dynamics of Faith, fully displays the discrepancies in points of view on the function of faith, as well as the necessity of faith, in society; while the comparison of Viktor E. Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning and Karl Marx’s “on the Future of Religion,” demonstrate both similarities and differences

There is a wide array of uses for religion, but the most important aspect is how it teaches us morals. An example of this deriving from the Abrahamic faiths would be the Ten Commandments by Moses as it teaches us basic principles of morality and compassion such as loving and respecting your neighbor or the Seven deadly sins that is associated with Christian teachings. Morality is the center of all religions and answers the fundamental questions of our existence and why events may occur (Nord and Hayes). When the loss of religion or faith occurs, society seems to be bleak. Brave New World and Crime and Punishment are both experiencing or have experienced the loss of faith. Brave New World has citizens who consume soma which is a type of drug that enables its users to become hypersensitive to the world around them. This hypersensitivity allows them to be in encapsulated and feel emotions unlike ever before. It practically becomes their religion as the hail the great Henry Ford who first introduced the assembly line. There aren’t any Abrahamic faiths that exist within this society. It makes us question why the individuals must who participate in such a degrading activity that handicaps them. They are slaves to being “free”, but it’s only an illusion of freedom as they are still united through the ritual of “orgy porgies” that requires all of them to participate in group sexual intercourse. It’s apparent that there are no morals that exist within this society. Relationships have become a taboo as wife, husband, mother, father, boyfriend, girlfriend, sister, brother and any other connection to another human is frowned upon in society. The whole idea of the “orgy porgies” is for them to replace the intimacy that is provided by another human and be replaced by a group. The sense of intimacy that is built within a relationship is lost and seems more

Using material from item A and elsewhere, assess the view that most people today see spirituality and religious belief as purely private and personal matters.

In Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, the leaders believe that God is obsolete. Morality does not come from religion in the novel it comes from brainwashing. The leaders do not visualize religion as a necessity in a world where science is the basis of everything. If a society has no evident religion, somehow someone will find a form of religion or a Christ figure to praise and believe in. Real societies cannot survive without religion or science. Regardless of what the leaders in Brave New World promote, there is room for both science and religion in society; it’s a necessity.

The accomplishments and success of civilizations are closely linked to their religious outlook and the role of religion in their governments and society. Throughout history rulers have used the influence of religions to control their populations and provide the justification for their power. A society with a greater degree of separation between religion and government promotes a superior level of liberty and creativity amongst its people. By the time of the decline of the Roman Empire in the west, however, the world had come full circle to a return to theocratic dictatorship.

Religion also plays an important function in allowing the authors to comment on society and faith’s role in it. For example, both authors seem to be suggesting that our religion is only compatible in society as we know it, that is to say that it is not compatible with other situations. In The Children of Men a major disruption to the working of society, mass infertility, has led to a total destruction of the Christian faith. In Brave New World, an unstoppable surge of machinery and technology has led to the disregard of religious moral and the introduction of a new set of hedonist attitudes, both scenarios being deplored by the reader. This could also be seen as the authors’ asserting that a civilized society desperately needs stable religion and morals, given that the utter breakdown in The Children of Men is arguably as shocking as the superficial worship of machinery and pleasure in Brave New World.

     "'God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness.'" So says Mustapha Mond, the World Controller for Western Europe in Aldous Huxley's novel Brave New World. In doing so, he highlights a major theme in this story of a Utopian society. Although the people in this modernized world enjoy no disease, effects of old age, war, poverty, social unrest, or any other infirmities or discomforts, Huxley asks 'is the price they pay really worth the benefits?' This novel shows that when you must give up religion, high art, true science, and other foundations of modern life in place of a sort of unending happiness, it is not worth the sacrifice.

In the novel, Brave New World, the author, Aldous Huxley, creates a society run by the government that does not contain any type of religion. This sort of creation begs the question… Is the society truly happy without religion? Brave New World focuses on the society and it’s ability to function without any sort of religion. The majority of society believes that their only source of happiness is from a drug called soma.

The United States of America was founded on the idea of religious freedom. Pilgrims came to America to practice their religion freely. In the Bill of Rights, Americans have the right to freedom of religion. Religion is the foundation in the United States of America, so it should be taught in schools.

The United States of America is a country that is a country that is based on the fact that it's citizens have more freedom than anywhere else. "Freedom" is a broad term of "American", and we use the word a lot without ever really defining it. We have the freedom to choose our religion. Although the pledge of allegiance states "one nation under god", implying that an American citizen is a Christian background, it is not forced upon us. Unlike some places, we have the freedom to put our faith in whatever religion we choose, regardless of whether we were born into it or not. We can worship whatever god we want, however we want, whenever we want. We can choose to believe in nothing at all, or every god that every religion has ever praised. We

Religion has been a powerful force in human history. Mankind has longed and searched for the answers to its purpose, the reason for being and the possibility of life after physical death. They reasoned that an afterlife would be a place of accounting and reckoning for the life they lived on earth. Religious belief systems seemed to give the answers as to how to prepare for the afterlife. Religion became the means of giving answers to those basic yet deep-seated questions of both life and death. Religion provided a format of rules and laws for conduct and treatment toward others based on the desires and wishes of a god or gods that people envisioned, imagined or invented. Religious belief systems have been a powerful force for good and bad...good in the sense that it provided a measure of individual behavior and order in society for the wellbeing of the whole, but bad in the sense that men of ambition who craved power and control over others would often use religion as a tool of manipulation and fear. A casual glance of history tells us that complete civilizations have been built, grown and maintained around elaborate religious systems, ancient Egypt being a prime example.

Throughout history, religion has proved to be the main source of social stability in different communities and cultural groups. Everything that is part of a societal system, including law, is influenced by religious beliefs and practices of that society. This being said, most religions are based on the theory that there is a single more powerful entity, that has control over aspects of which humans do not. For the longest time in history, sociologists have argued that peer group, political movements, schools and most importantly, the family to be agents of socialization. Because of this reason, they have ignored the role played by religion in the perpetuation of cultural as well as social