ABSTRACT
By defining “sociology of religion” as the study of the interrelation of religion and society, people assume that religious impulses, ideas, and institutions influence and, in turn, are influenced by social forces, social organization, and stratification. As the organizational structure becomes more complex, the members of a group “do different tasks toward a common end; they have not only different functions, but different powers, different degrees of participation, different rights and obligations”. The strong influence of division of labour on primitive culture proves conclusively that even in less advanced civilizations religious cult is not without considerable type differentiation. Specialization in manual work is by no means the only type of specialization found in primitive society. Military activities, participated in exclusively by particular groups or tribes of the society, constitute another aspect of specialization. Just as long as the various strata which make up society are united by some common denominator of interests or ideas, major changes will not take place.
