Davie: Postmodernity and religion
- Created by: Emily Uffindell
- Created on: 04-10-14 19:38
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- Davie (2007): Believing without belonging
- Religion is not declining but changing and taking on a more privatised form.
- Churchgoing has now declined because it's a matter of personal choice rather than obligation.
- Despite low attendance, people still use churches for rites of passae
- Example: Baptisms, weddings, funerals.
- Evaluation: The British social attitudes survey from 1983 to 2000 found that both church attendance and religious belief are declining.
- If Davie had been right then he would have found that belief in God had increased.
- Despite low attendance, people still use churches for rites of passae
- An increase in "believing without belonging."
- Definition: This is when people hold religious beliefs but don't actually go to church.
- There is a trend towards "vicarious religion."
- Definition: Where a small number of professional clergy cater to a much larger number of people.
- Rejects secularisation theory's assumption that modernisation affects every society in the same way.
- Instead there are "multiple modernities."
- Definition: There are very different patterns of religion in different societies.
- Example: Britain and America are both modern societies but with very different religious patters. (e.g. high church attendance in America, low in Britain, but accompanied by believing without belonging.)
- Instead there are "multiple modernities."
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