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Clifford Geertz, a prominent American anthropologist, made significant contributions to the sociology of religion through his interpretive approach to culture. He viewed religion not merely as a belief system or set of rituals but as a symbolic system that provides deep cultural meaning and orientation to human life. His understanding of religion emerged most notably in his essay “Religion as a Cultural System” (1966), where he sought to move beyond structural-functionalist and reductionist explanations. Geertz’s perspective emphasized the importance of symbols and meaning, offering a rich and nuanced framework to analyze religious phenomena. According to Geertz, religion is a cultural system comprised of symbols that establish powerful, pervasive, and long-lasting moods and motivations in people. These symbols formulate conceptions of a general order of existence and clothe these conceptions with such an aura of factuality that the moods and motivations seem uniquely realistic. He argued that the symbolic and interpretive dimensions of religion are what give it its social and psychological force. Symbols, in this sense, are not just signs but vehicles of meaning that carry deep emotional and cultural significance. For Geertz, religion is best understood as a system of symbols which acts to _________ ____ ________ ________ ___ ________ ________ ________ ________ ______ _______.
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