It was guaranteed by the most powerful and reliable of all social institutions."(Pg. 291) This "powerful authority" was religion and it was very useful in sustaining a stable social system in times when security was hard to come by. ... He insisted that "economic facts have formed the foundation of social life; they are the base that generates the division of labor, the struggle of classes, and alienation" (136). ... Religion thus protects those who are in power, all the more as it "provides the ideology [...] which they can call upon to remind the poor that all social arrangements should sta...

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