BIS - T3 - SECULARISATION
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- BIS - T3 - SECULARISATION
- Secularisation in Britain
- Crockett: increased church age + lower church weddings/ baptisms.
- Wilson: Western cultures undergo long term process of secularisation - church loses influence.
- church attendance today
- 2015: 5% of pop attend church on Sunday
- Church census: small organisations not decline as much as large ones but do not make up for it. Still decline
- Bogus baptisms: entry ticket to good faith schools rather than Xtian commitment
- 2015: 5% of pop attend church on Sunday
- Religious affiliation today
- refers to person's religious commitment. Number of catholics = increased due to immigration
- Non-Xtian religion increase due to immigration
- refers to person's religious commitment. Number of catholics = increased due to immigration
- Religious institutions
- state take over functions religion used to perform (19th century) - e.g. education faith schools funded by state - have to conform to state
- Woodhead: [Clergy] = ageing population of priests - lack of clergy = lack of influence in community.
- Bruce: Secularisation in America
- secular because religion became superficial. 3 sources of evidence to support claim:
- Hadaway: Declining church attendance
- study of Ohio church attendance - found level of attendance claimed by interviewees 83% higher than researchers estimate
- until 70's opinion polls accurate to actual attendance. After gap widened - result of social desirability
- study of Ohio church attendance - found level of attendance claimed by interviewees 83% higher than researchers estimate
- Bruce: Secularisation from within
- secular society makes religion 'form of therapy'. - American religion remains popular this way - no seeking salvation - seek personal improvement
- Lynd and Lynd: Religious diversity
- trend to [practical relativism]: acceptance of other beliefs to be true
- [erosion of absolutism] - now live in society where acceptance of others views undermines our own
- trend to [practical relativism]: acceptance of other beliefs to be true
- Hadaway: Declining church attendance
- secular because religion became superficial. 3 sources of evidence to support claim:
- eval of secularisation theory:
- no decline, change of form
- ignores people who believe but don't attend
- focuses on decline of trad. religion - ignores new religions
- Explanations of:
- Max Weber: rationalisation
- rational thought replaces religious belief. Medieval catholic worldview dominated Europe saw world as God's magic garden
- God, Angel, Devils present in world and intervening in it
- Disenchantment
- Prostantism saw God as transcedent. No intervention = events no longer supernatural - need rational thought to understand
- Bruce: A technological worldview
- Religion only work where technology + science don't explain events - e.g. ill family member. Science of plane crash - not supernatural cause
- rational thought replaces religious belief. Medieval catholic worldview dominated Europe saw world as God's magic garden
- Parsons: structural diffrentiation
- religion used to dominate society but industrialisation means it has got into smaller institutions
- Disengagement: loses influence and functions transferred to state
- Privatisation: confined to private family sphere - personal choce
- religion used to dominate society but industrialisation means it has got into smaller institutions
- Bruce: social and cultural diversity
- Wilson - decline of community - religion loses influence on all
- Bruce: Industrialsation - small knit community gives way to big scale connected one. - more diversity
- religion can be source of identity in wide scale community
- Berger: religious diversity
- [Sacred canopy] - Catholic church held monopoly in middle ages. Now no monopoly = no sacred truth uniting society
- Beckford: opposing views strengthen sense of community
- [Sacred canopy] - Catholic church held monopoly in middle ages. Now no monopoly = no sacred truth uniting society
- Bruce: cultural defence and transition
- [Cultural defence] - religion provides defence of culture/group/community from external forces
- [Cultural transition] - provides support and sense of community for ethnic groups
- modernisation, social change, diversity = undermine validity of religion
- Max Weber: rationalisation
- Secularisation in Britain
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