2.social mobility and cultural capital - religious celebration bring faith communities together to celebrate these shred beliefs and values .
3. emotional social security of the individual
4.celebration of sense and kinship - social networking, festivals reinforce family connections.
5.social ceremonilization - collectively ceremonilized at collective level not individual level .
6. sacred and profane by Durkheim - religious festival is viewed as sacred .
Emile durkheim saw festivals as a form of social glue, holding societies together, shared experience, like religious and secular celebration may help create a feelings of commonality.
7.Idenity, solidarity, differentiation and conflict -group identify and solidarity and to intra and inter-group differentiation and conflict - religious brotherhood .
8.culture of consumption - shopping for festivals, cooking holiday meals highlight the consumer based society.
9.Secularization of religious rituals and practices themselves - Muslims celebrate Eid inside the Ganapathi temple and Hindus celebrate the Muharram.
10. Religious socialization - Religious ceremonies, such as Deepavali, socialize members of the faith to the practices and beliefs of the religion.
