Re-enchantment of the World

Question 1

Why does Lyon criticise secularisation theory?

Answer 1

For assuming that religion is declining and being replaced by a rational scientific view.

Question 2

What is contrary to Weber’s prediction of increasing rationalisation and disenchantment?

Answer 2

Lyon argues that we are now in a period of re-enchantment, with the growth of unconventional beliefs, practices and spirituality.

Question 3

Although traditional forms of religion have declined, what has grown?

Answer 3

Lyon points to the growing vitality of non-traditional religion in the West and resurgence elsewhere in the world.