SECULARISATION DEBATE

Question 1

[FOR] - popularity🌊

Answer 1

•church attendance stats
^ 1851 census - 40% church
^ 2005 census - 6.3% church
•decline in church marriages

Question 2

[FOR] - plausibility☀️

Answer 2

•not as believable to society - belief in God and traditional teachings of creation + afterlife <science></science>

Question 3

[FOR] - power💦

Answer 3

[WILSON]
•church not in politics anymote
•gay, divorce, abortion go against religion.

Question 4

[REASONS FOR] - rationalisation❄️

Answer 4

[WEBER]
•logical evidence based.
•disenchantment- angels no
•technological worldview [ BRUCE ]

Question 5

[REASONS FOR] structural differentiation 🍇

Answer 5

[PARSONS]
• e.g pre-industrial society villages focused around church, now government.
•disengagement in religion
•lost influence to law

Question 6

[REASONS FOR] social and cultural diversity 🥥

Answer 6

[WILSON]
•diversity of occupations, industrialisation destroyed religions base and communities

Question 7

[REASONS FOR] religious diversity 🥑

Answer 7

[BRUCE]
•no church can claim unchallenged monopoly of truth

Question 8

[REASONS AGAINST] fundamentalism🫐

Answer 8

•unwavering obedience to laws through society
•support traditional morality

Question 9

[REASONS AGAINST] resacrilisation + re-enchantment🌶️

Answer 9

[HEELAS]
•data from kendal project - renewal of religious beliefs - televangelism

Question 10

[REASONS AGAINST] - religious market theory🌽

Answer 10

[STARK]
•eurocentric - fails to explain continuing vitality in asia
•churches operate like countries selling goods
•make attractive

Question 11

[AGAINST] cultural transition + defence🍈

Answer 11

[BRUCE]
• increase religiosity

Question 12

[CHANGING] belief without belonging🫑

Answer 12

[DAVIE]
•privatised form worship in home
•don’t attend church

Question 13

[CHANGING] kendal project🍓

Answer 13

[HEELAS]
•congregational domain
•holistic milieu

Question 14

[CHANGING] sheilaism + indivuslised religion🥭

Answer 14

[BELLAH]
• if everyone took view there would be 333 million religions

Question 15

[CHANGING] spiritual shopping🥯

Answer 15

[LEGER]
•cultural amnesia - no longer teach children - they choose
•greater social equality - no longer power to IMPOSE religion