In: Psychology
Religion and society are often interlinked and religion is something in which people of the society believe or preaches but this society is often consistent to people belonging to different religious groups such as hindus, Muslims, Christian, sikhs, parsis. There are variety of people belonging to different religion in the society. Religion teaches them to do good deeds, to pray and believe in man kind. Religion is important to people, they worship their god, go to their holy places and show how much they care about their religion. But religion can never be separaated from Society, it is an inevitable part of society. The relationship between religion and society is bi-directional:it goes from religion to society and from society to religion. As religion teaches to establish mankind and do good deeds, follow good paths, it is also responsible for decline in crime rates as it is forbidden in their religion like domestic violence, murder, hurting someone,rape.Every coin has two faces , just like religion promotes goodness and less crime in Society, it has other ugly side too religion could also be responsible for promoting violence, people who follow certain religion, often misinterpret the holy saying of their religion annnd turn against other religion , to protect their own religion, they kill people, loot them, often hurt them on the name of religion, they often forget that no religion in society promotes violence or hurt, it only promotes love and peace among people of religion within society