Indira Gandhi National Open University
Elective Course in M.A. Sociology
MSOE-003: Sociology of Religion
Tutor Marked Assignment (TMA)

Maximum Marks: 100 Programme Code: MSO
Weightage: 30% Course Code: MSOE-003
Assignment Code: MSOE-003/AST/TMA/2020-2021

Answer any five questions selecting at least two from each Section. Your answer should
be in about 500 words each.

Section-I

1. Critically the relationship between religion and economy.
2. Explain the sociological significance of myth with the help of suitable examples

3. Explain the concept of sacrifice of sacrifice with reference to Nuer society.
4. Examine the contribution of M N Srinivas to the understanding of religion.
5. In what way does Cliffrod Geertz explain religion? Discuss. 

Section-II

6. ‘Berger’s concept of religion follows from his understanding of society world-building and world-ordering activity’. Critically discuss.

7. Explain the concept of secularism with reference to European experience.
8. What is religious conversion? Explain its sociological interpretation.
9. Examine the social context of the emergence of Buddhism. 

10. ‘Totemism is not a reality’. Discuss with reference to the writings of Lèvi- Strauss.