... society. My research will try to find out if the Bengali Muslims in the UK are losing their faith because there is no unifying force on Muslims; Islam is a minority religion in this secular state where the mainstream religion is Christianity. This pluralism gives Bengali's the choice whether or not to integrate into the capitalist way of life, in other words the 'American dream'. Hence, living in the UK is causing a decline in faith. Research of August Comte, a Structuralist, explains that religion goes through three stages and that in each stage religion loses its importance as an institution that governs society. These stages are: 1: The pre dominant era where religion played the theological stage in providing the dominant force of thought. 2: The Meta physical sage where philosophy became the dominant force of thought and religions supernatural beliefs were replaced with philosophical answers. 3: the last stage was the ...

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