Explanations of Secularisation
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- Explanations of Secularisation
- Max Weber: Rationalisation
- Martin Luther's Protestant Reformation begun the process of rationalisation
- Bruce: Technological Worldview
- Misfortune is explained away as coincidence or scientific failure, leaving no room for religious explanations. The Technological Worldview encourages people to take religion less seriously.
- Disenchantment
- Weber believed that the Protestant Reformation saw that magic and superstition were replaced by reason. Science begins to dominate as a means of explaining the world. People become disenchanted undermining the religious worldview.
- Parsons: Structural Differentiation:
- Religion's role has been specialised, as other institutions have replaced its' functions, disconnecting it from wider society. Modern states accept that the state shouldn't be identified with one particular faith.
- Bruce states that religion has become privatised. Religious beliefs are a matter of personal choice; religious institutions have lost their influence on wider society.
- Social and cultural diversity
- Bruce claims that industrialisation undermines the consensus of religious beliefs. Social and geographical mobility breaks up communities, creating diversity. The plausibility of beliefs is undermined by alternatives.
- Criticisms
- Aldridge states: -Religion can be a source of global identity e.g: Hinduism and Islam -Some religious communities are 'imagined' interacting through global media. -Pentecostal and other religious groups often flourish in impersonal areas.
- Max Weber: Rationalisation
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