Secularisation
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- Created on: 28-04-15 13:20
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- Causes of secularisation,from 1800 - 2000
- Science
- Darwin produced his 1859 thesis on evolution, signs now point towards the idea God did not create man,
- Increased medical and technologicaldevelpement became better evidence that God could not save you.
- In Berlin, intellectual criticisms of the bourgeois attracted the working class, who also began criticising the bible.
- Political
- Parties in power that want to avoid religion.
- Nazism - Hitler turned the church into the Regime - largest number of priest resignations. One way of showing how the roles controlled by the church were now controlled by the state.
- Communism - Athiest, does not believe in being controlled by the Church, but instead the state.
- This lead to the lost of teachers of religion. Persecution in Soviet Union, Catholics in Mexico, Christians in Turkey.
- French Revolution saw the first separation of Church and State.
- Parties in power that want to avoid religion.
- Economics
- Post War - Society becomes more affluent. More disposable income. Greater leisure activities.
- Meant parents would now prefer to spend time relaxing, cinema, TV etc, less time in church, children no longer at Sunday schools.
- Post War - Society becomes more affluent. More disposable income. Greater leisure activities.
- Mixing of cultures.
- After WW2, the West was home to refugees, Jews from Germany, Chilean Socialists etc. Increased influence of other religions.
- Rebellion - 1960s.
- The introduction of the contraceptive pill, drugs, legalising abortion, led to the moral teachings of the bible being ignored. Did not believe in authority.
- Feminism - It was down to the woman to provide the children with the necessary teachings of the church, to pass religion down the line.
- Women refused - second wave feminism, also they had jobs, less time for bible reading with children.
- Media, TV, magazines, music - spread the questioning of religion. Increased atheism - student counter culture - rebel against parents and state and parents expectations.
- Wanted to experiment with religion - find for themselves which religion they wanted, eastern religions became fashionable. 'Spiritual' became to mean 'seeking for oneself'
- Industrialisation
- Industry broke up the village units.
- Disrupted the transmission of traditional values.
- It allowed for easy opt out of religion - were no longer subject to torment for not being religious.
- People were no longer religious in public.
- Working hours decreased - machinery and laws - people wanted to relax, not preach.
- Science
- Mixing of cultures.
- After WW2, the West was home to refugees, Jews from Germany, Chilean Socialists etc. Increased influence of other religions.
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