Power

The sociological definition of power is having the ability or capability to impose your will on others. It is related to the exercising of control. Max Weber defines power as being the "opportunity existing within a social [relationship] which permits one to carry out one's own will even against resistance and regardless of the basis on which this opportunity rests."

Power can be physical and it could be mental, you could have the power to physically enforce a certain thing to occur, you could just the same change a persons mind or thinking through "power" or "having the power to do that". Power can be of different types, one could have persuasion power, thinking power, physical power, social class power (depending on how aristocratic you are by example) that could also come under financial power, skill power there is also authority power , power that is obtained through the personality you are.

Power has also been seen to be an important attribute to religious affairs, in terms of leadership. Many religions have introduced this theory of "the powerful one being the knowledgeable one" gains leadership. We see in history that various "religious" leaders obtained the power to lead solely because they had the "power" in the first place. They were either rich, or famous perhaps. This then poses as a question, as to how a "religious" leader can actually in anyway be linked to a materialistic issue, one of money in example.