How does religion influence different characteristics of a society?

Religion was introduced to regulate the society. Thereafter, states have taken up the responsibility, and improved it further. Most of the laws of the nations are the products of various religion. But religion multiplied, and deviated from the stated path. There were clashes between the religion and the states, but later on religion could not match with the pace of the states, on various issues. The control of states by religion started eroding, though some religions are still controlling the states. The laws are different in different states, mainly due to change in religion.

Now religions multiplied in different nations, and unable to compromise with each other. States conflict with the religion and the conflict of religion between themselves, resulted in the disturbance to the people in various ways. compromise between various religion is difficult, and the participation of various religion in the democratic process, gave more problems than solutions. Our founding fathers, failed to arrest the participation of various religions into the democratic set up, and as such, religions are in search for more powers than the states.

athenian democracy developed around the fifth century bc in the greek city-state (known as a polis) of athens, comprising the city of athens and the surrounding territory of attica, and is often described as the first known democracy in the world. other greek cities set up democracies, most following the athenian model, but none are as well documented as athens'.

it was a political system of direct democracy, in which participating citizens voted directly on legislation and executive bills. participation was not open to all residents: to vote one had to be an adult, male citizen, i.e., not a foreign resident, a submissive or a woman, and the number of these was "probably no more than 30 percent of the total adult population."[1]

the longest-lasting democratic leader was pericles. after his death, athenian democracy was twice briefly interrupted by oligarchic revolutions towards the end of the peloponnesian war. it was modified somewhat after it was restored under eucleides; the most detailed accounts of the system are of this fourth-century modification rather than the periclean system. democracy was suppressed by the macedonians in 322 bc. the athenian institutions were later revived, but how close they were to a real democracy is debatable. solon (594 bc), cleisthenes (508/7 bc), and ephialtes (462 bc) contributed to the development of athenian democracy. cleisthenes broke up the power of the nobility by organizing citizens into ten groups based on where they lived rather than on their wealth.

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industrial revolution, in modern history, the process of change from an agrarian and handicraft economy to one dominated by industry and machine manufacturing