THE MICRO-SOCIOLOGY OF RELIGION & THE SOCIAL ORGANIZATION IN INDIA

While the Macro level of religion describes the historic changes, innovation, conflict, rise and fall, religious market processes and the place of religion in the social history of culture, states and economies, the meso level deals with the divisions within societies, how they are broken apart by income, ethnicity and the like and , when religion focused, it includes church organization, religious movements, religious demography and the entwining of religious with politics among others. In the case of the micro, intimate level , it deals with the daily actions and interactions of people in society observing everything as closely as possible and going deep in the details that conform the complex reality of current lives.

In India, where 79.8% of people belongs to Hinduism religion, its sociology is analyzed from the caste system that divides the population into four groups and an unrecognized fifth group. The belief states that each individual was created from a specific part of Brahma being the Brahmin caste the replacement of Barhma in earth,  the Kshatriyas the Kings, Soldier warriors, Agriculturist and nobility the Vaishya caste the Marchants, cattle herders and artisans, the Shudra caste the craftsmen and laborers, and the Dalito Outcaste also named as the untouchables. This social structure also coexists with secondary religions such as jainism, sikhism, a zoroastrianism (parsis), and budist and even if such structure is the reflect of discriination, the indian peple accept their role in the society  and live according to it.