Worship Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ==Modern worship== In modern [[society]] and [[sociology]], some writers have commented on the ways that people no longer simply worship recognised deities, but also (or instead) worship consumer brands,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/gaming.gadgets/05/19/apple.religion/index.html|title=Apple triggers 'religious' reaction in fans' brains, report says|website=CNN|last1=Milian|first1=Mark|date=May 19, 2011|access-date=December 20, 2023}}</ref> sports teams, [[Anthropolatry|and other people]] ([[celebrity|celebrities]], for example).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sydney.edu.au/news/84.html?newsstoryid=10384|title=News - The University of Sydney|website=sydney.edu.au}}</ref> Sociology therefore extends this argument to suggest outside of a religion worship is a process whereby society worships itself, as a form of self-valorization and self-preservation.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cf.ac.uk/socsi/undergraduate/introsoc/durkheim6.html|title=Emile Durkheim - The Sociology of Religion|website=www.cf.ac.uk}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page