Religion and Society

রিলিজিয়ন অ্যান্ড সোসাইটি

Author/লেখক: Debiprasad Chattopadhyay • দেবীপ্রসাদ চট্টোপাধ্যায়
Category/বিভাগ: Philosophy
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Publisher/প্রকাশক: Aakar Books
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Language/ভাষা: English - ইংরেজি
First Publication Year/প্রথম প্রকাশ: 1987 • ১৯৮৭
Publication Year/প্রকাশ: 2024
Edition/সংস্করণ: 4
Binding/বাঁধাই: Paperback • পেপারব্যাক
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250 gms
Number of Pages/পাতা: 211
ISBN: 978-93-50022-51-1
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Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya in this collection of eight essays has unraveled the social function of religion in different stages of human evolution. Following the Marxian schema, he visualized human history essentially in three stages: the pre-class stage, the evolution of class divisions and the future of humanity which would be classless. The stages also corresponded to the absence of religion, when magic performed the function of what religion was to do when class divisions emerged. Religion in this stage was a historical necessity. During the career of human civilization, its role had often been most complex and contradictory ranging from being an instrument for enforcing abject submission of the toiling masses to that of inspiring revolt against tyranny and oppression. However, religion as a historical phenomenon – arising when society needed it – also ensures its ultimate disappearance with the transition to classless society in the future. The argument is that, everything in the universe, both material and spiritual, is involved in the process of coming into existence and passing out of existence; it is a process of ceaseless flux. The argument runs through the opening theoretical perspectives to empirical, source based analysis of ancient Indian religions.