Both of these thinkers argued that religion works in stratified societies to maintain the power and position of the ruling elite

A) Marx and Durkheim
B) Freud and L vi-Strauss
C) Tylor and Marrett
D) Bates and Gilmore
E) Geertz and Harris


A

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