Secularisation Flashcards
What are some different reasons for secularisation in the UK ?
Decline in church going population
Increase in age of church goers
Fewer baptisms and weddings
Decline in traditional beliefs held
Greater religious diversity
What is max Webers rationalisation theory ?
The process by which rational ways of thinking have replaced religious ones
What is Bruces technological world view ?
Technology has replaced religious or supernatural experiences
What is the process of Definition Parsons describes ?
Specialisation that occurs with the development of industrial society, with specialised institutions carrying out multiple functions that used to be done by the church
What is the disengagement of religion from society known as ?
Structural differentiation
What are the main points about religion bruce agrees with ?
Become separate from wider society
Lost many of its functions
Become privatised
Confined to secular rules
What has society moving from pre industrial to industrial lead to ?
Decline in community and religion ?
What did bruce state about industrialisation ?
It undermined the consensus from religion that held small communities together
What did bruce say about diversity ?
Even though people still hold religious beliefs in society, cannot avoid that many peoples around them hold different views
,undermining the believability of beliefs due to alternatives existing
What were the main components of the 500AD-1500AD religious canopy ?
Church regained power
Everyone lived and worked
Church truth went unquestioned
What were the main components of the protestant reformation 1601 ?
Protestant churches and sects broke away from catholic church
Religious diversity
Disappearance of the sacred canopy
What is the plausibility structure that Berger describes ?
Crisis for credibility for religion
Diversity undermines plausibility of one faith
Existence of alternate religions
Truth becomes a matter of opinion
Creates possibility for religious opt outs
What is cultural transition ?
Religion provides support and sense of community for ethnic groups such as migrants to a different country and culture
How has it been argued that religion survives ?
Focus group for identity
Not disprove secularisation
Religion loses importance once migrants integrates into society
What are some criticisms of secularisation theory ?
Religion is not dying but changing
Secularisation ignores religious revivals
Ignores believers who don’t attend church
Religious decline more common in europe
The past wasn’t a golden age of faith
Religious diversity offers more choice
