Religion and pop culture depending on Marxism Feminism and Orientalism

Religion and pop culture are the major barriers to people their product by marketing their product showing how the Mercedes is classy and can make a middle-aged man be able to attract most of the middle-aged women and fail to address how it is safe from accidents (Barnett et al. p10). In the popular cultures, it is believed that having a certain amount of wealth is good as it gives individuals the sense of identity. This paper provides the analysis of religion and pop culture using a Marxist lens. Karl Max believed that religion is the primary reason why the proletariat accepts the conditions that they face in life (Klassen, Chris p29). Without religion, it is believed that most people might strive to ensure that they make ends meet and believe that the states that they are in are not the end.

Religion makes people not to work and believe in luck. Popular culture is also among the factors that people find comfort in. Most people already have an idea of what a popular culture might entail. A popular culture is culture that is accepted by a wide variety of people (Klassen, Chris p40). Folk culture can be transmitted through the marriage customs or even family recipes. The popular culture involves the transmission of the culture through a wide number of people. The process of transmission might involve the mass media like radio and television stations for their transmission (Klassen, Chris p40). The interests of understanding popular cultures have grown in the recent past following the formation of various organizations that try to make sure that the popular cultures are known.

Among the organizations made based on popular cultures include the American language Association in the United States. Karl Marx referred to religion as the opium of the opium of the people. Karl Marx believed that religion is a social institution in which people depend upon to get their economic and materialistic satisfaction. The human society has two major parts namely the substructure and the superstructure. The substructures are the employees to the superstructures. Karl Marx says that religion is a reflex from the real world, as it has no independent history. Marx had three major reasons why he was against religion. He believed that religion is quite irrational and is interested in the appearances and avoids the underlying realities. Religion makes human beings lazy to the extent that they do not understand the realities and strive to maintain their status quo.

Marx noted that he could not accept the teachings of the gods as long as they deny the humans the self-consciousness to understand themselves. Religion is quite hypocritical despite it having the valuable principles (Klassen, Chris p40). The feminism lens disagrees with all the oppressive rules that are against women. Women feel that the stipulations in the religious doctrines are untrue as they are meant to make women appear as a weaker species. Some women celebrate Christianity as part of the human diversities that we have in the world (Klassen, Chris p95). Most feminist believe that religion does not give individuals the opportunity to think about the realities of life and that women can equally do the tasks that men are meant to do.

This paper provides an analysis of religion and popular culture basing on feminism lens. Some of the Christians have agreed to be Christian feminists whereby they agree with the just teachings of religion but are against those that make women weaker. The feminists who are religious to take the Christian feminists stand to avoid being called the atheists as it kills their joy. Some women do not associate with the feminist movements because they have been brainwashed by religion that they would anger the gods and there are serious consequences for taking such a stand (Young et al p7). Atheists are believed not to do enough good to their fellow humans and this makes most of feminists to get such a bad identity.

Most of the feminists believe that the religious beliefs in God are meant to exalt men at the expense of women (Klassen, Chris p95). The woman would have no option other face the realities of the world that they need to find something to feed their families (Avishai, et al p6). It is important that women learn that following the religious teachings blindly would not help them. Religion allows the proletariat women to be satisfied with their existing economic and materialistic states that the feminism condemns. Feminism focuses at ensuring that women are empowered to be able to stand on their own. Feminism believes that women have been for long in religion than the rest of the genders and religion should not reward them by making them weaker.

Popular culture is transmitted through the media. The media initially showed women as the weaker gender in most cases. Women are helped in the most of the movies and stories are shown on television shows (Burke, Peter p4). The feminists stood out to condemn the actions of the media sticking to the popular culture and emphasized that women should be given equal opportunities as men when it comes to the cultures of the world. The popular cultures portray women as inadequate, and the feminists are against it. p7). The pop culture currently supports feminism, and gender balance is necessary for every instance. For instance, although there might be more than half of a particular genders working in a certain organization (Wright p975).

The rules of many states do not allow the minority gender to be less than third the total representation. The pop culture provides for economic and political equality among all genders. Orientalism includes the principle of the political orientalism and the relevance of the orientalism in the literary context. Sometimes, popular culture is a relatively complex topic to define and elaborate. The popular culture is not just a combination of interest that may include bingo, line dancing, or bodice rippers. It takes time to decide whether a particular culture is popular or not. If an individual considers imitating the readings of other people concerning the culture popularity, then they have been oriented to think that the culture that they have read about is important.

They do not focus on improving their cultures. They focus on ensuring that other cultures rather than developing their old. Orientalism believes that the Middle East defines the today’s culture. The Empire touches on two aspects of the culture of Middle East. The first fiction is the pan-Islamic conspiracy. It is believed that the popularity of the conspiracies is the ultimate refuge for those who are powerless. The conspiracy has gained popularity to the extent that the majority of individuals feel that it is possible to get whatever they want through getting engaged in one. The conspiracy theories make us think that it is the only way through which we can survive. The conspiracy theories that are the part of popular culture make us be far from the truth, and this is dangerous to the ways in which people think.

Orientalism is the actual basis of the thoughts of all the popular cultures that people think that they are getting engaged in. It has been established that it is the second largest religion after Christianity with about two billion believers (Wright p975). Most of the Muslims are victims of orientalism and are washed with the teachings of the Islam of culture to the extent that they do not reason beyond it. Islam has been noted to be one of the best religions that help individuals who want to be financially stable. The Muslim cultures educated individuals that if they cannot buy a good, then they need to learn to forget it (Wright p975). They should not get into loans. Religion may sometimes be misleading as people tend to follow the religious teachings without considering the probable negative consequences.