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added methodolgies with methodological atheism which is used for a good reason, but may be interpretreted as criticism of religions COPY from CITIZENDIUM
*Individualist versus social views
*Individualist versus social views
*[[Sociocultural evolution|Evolutionist]] versus [[relativism|relativist]] views
*[[Sociocultural evolution|Evolutionist]] versus [[relativism|relativist]] views
==Methodologies==
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Most sociologists and anthropologists, who tend to see religion, as inseparable from and determined by the social context, resort to what is called 'methodological atheism'. This means that when explaining religion they reject divine or supernatural explanations for the status or origins of religions, because they are not testable. <ref>Kunin, page 74</ref>
The anthropologist [[E. E. Evans-Pritchard]] preferred detailed ethnographical study of a tribe and their religion to form a theory about the tribe's religion over untestable speculation over the origins of religions by e.g. [[Max Müller|Müller]], [[Edward Burnett Tylor|Tylor]], and [[Émile Durkheim|Durkheim]], and what he termed 'armchair anthropologist'.<ref> Evans-Pritchard, page 101</ref><ref> Evans-Pritchard, page 108</ref>
==Karl Marx==
==Karl Marx==