How Religion Might Contribute to Social Conflict?

Sociological Interpretation of the Report: How Religion might contribute to Social Conflict?
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Sociological Interpretation of the Report: How might religion contribute to social conflict?
Introduction
Religious conflicts are among the common issues of discussion. Religious conflicts are quite elusive. Its intertwining nature occasions the complexity of religious conflicts with political affiliations, imperialisms, and socio-economic dimensions. Religious violence and related wars are often subtle. Divisive discussions have existed for a long. Many people, including scholars, are confused about whether terrorist groups have religious interests, political agendas, or both. Religious conflict has a long history, where the contemporary religious manifestations in contests reflect long-standing historical developments. Religious conflict may be contemplating a hidden political agenda and socio-economic turbulence in communities and particular nations or regions. Theoretical approaches are needed to dig deeper into the issues surrounding religious conflicts. The inadequate understanding of religious conflict underpins the need for theoretical conceptualization to shed more light on unresolved, yet worrying, religious-related wars, conflicts, and terrors. This paper will argue how religion might have contributed to social conflict, explore circumstances under which religion has caused conflict, predict the future of religious conflicts, and demonstrate how such conflicts can be reduced. Conflict theory sociological theory is deployable as a prism of examining religious-associated conflict to create better understandings and guarantee practical ways of mitigating such religious-related challenges.
An explanation and application of a sociological theory
According to conflict theory, religious dominations reinforce and promote social inequality and social conflict. Religion convinces the poor to accept their lot in life, leading to hostility and violence motivated by religious variations. The approach to which religion portends conflict is far-reaching. It is not only about terrorism, bloodshed, and armed conflicts, but it also elicits other social conflicts such as gender conflicts, patriarchal societies, and oppressions, which are core elements rooted partly in social, religious fabric.
Many would argue that religion is one of the primary drivers behind increasing inequalities and conflict. Religion may have specific and non-specific benefits, but it can also reinforce and promote social inequality and conflict. The conflict theory can be traced to the works of Karl Marx, who described religion as an opiate for the masses to mean that religion makes people comfortable with prevailing conditions, even when such circumstances are intolerable (Callinicos,2011).  According to Karl Max, such comfortability was something transient. It was an unstable situation because the continuous oppression and inequality would finally lead to conflict.
Karl Max's arguments illustrate why he called upon the workers to rise against the bourgeoisie because it is the oppression and social inequities brought about by the bourgeoisie (Callinicos,...